It was Palestinian, and was traditionally filled with "hard-core" goat or ewe cheese, which, Ottolenghi allowed, was an acquired taste.
At lunchtime, the chef Ian Riley can typically be found in the tiny, bustling bistro, creating delicious modern dishes like courgette fritters with watercress, peas and ewe cheese (lunch entrees start at £4.50, or $6.90 at $1.53 to the pound).
House specialties include chateaubriand and mint fettuccine with tuna, ewes' cheese and pepper.
Slovak Bryndza cheese is a natural, spreadable cheese with characteristic odour and taste, made using the traditional method: by milling a lump of matured ewes' cheese, or by milling a mixture of ewes' lump cheese and cows' lump cheese.
A total of 23 Lactobacillus strains (10 L. paracasei, 9 L. plantarum, and 4 L. brevis) isolated from raw milk and artisanal ewes' cheeses were included in this study.
Bryndza from Brezňan was made from fresh ewes' lump cheese, from unpasteurized ewes' milk.
Other Bryndza samples, namely, LM and ZS, were made from fresh ewes' lump cheese (from pasteurized ewes' milk) and cows' lump cheese made from pasteurized cows' milk, while CK and K were made from ewes' lump cheese stored for several months and cows' lump cheese made from pasteurized cows' milk, where the ewes' lump cheese represented more than 50% of the mixture in dry substance.
You can add preserved lemon to your shakshuka, harissa paste, olives or a salty ewe's cheese.
This may be a more considered, mature Kitching at work, but his dishes – a brilliant "savoury" cheesecake studded with tiny pieces of mushroom; or a scallop dish that, among multiple components, includes not just the strong ewe's cheese, Perail, and a miniature saffron and lemon pancake, but also a perfect chip – remains precise, witty and original.
And ukfoodonline.co.uk lists goat's and ewe's cheeses, plus stockists.
Otherwise, Neal's Yard Dairy has many ewe's cheeses such as Ticklemore, Berkswell and Spenwood.
