The cheese specialists at Old Amsterdam are collaborating with the local restaurant Lute and the Haarlem-based wine supplier Okhuysen to create cheese-based dishes paired with specific wines.
As the organic milk from her goats naturally tapers off in the winter -- "The goats just began to collect unemployment as of last Friday," Fondiller e-mailed me on Dec. 15 -- she mixes it with organic milk from her neighbors' Holsteins and Jerseys to create cheeses like Bipartisan (cow with goat in the middle), moving into all-cow before phasing back into goat in the spring.
Although you can select from more than 30 cheeses to create your own cheese board, we let the cheesemongers select local fare for us.
In others, the goal is to invent new foods, like creating cheese, meat and egg substitutes from plants.
The results showed that it is possible to create a cream cheese with lower fat content and with sensory attributes similar to the attributes in cream cheese with high fat content, by modification of production parameters.
But creating cheese this way is really expensive.
And once you've mastered the curd cheese, you can tuck into it as it is or press it for an hour or so to create a paneer-style cheese.
Others were more nuanced and satisfying, like the sea scallops, wrapped in that thick salty bacon, which combined with avocado and crumbled blue cheese to create, surprisingly, just the right taste.
Creative Koreans concocted budae jjigae by taking unfamiliar American processed meats and boiling them up with Korean instant noodles, garlic, kimchi, gochujang (Korean chilli paste) and anything else they could get hold of (including baked beans and processed cheese) to create a spicy, hearty stew.
But the king of the Bhutanese kitchen is the chilli, used as a vegetable not a spice and cooked with cheese to create the staple and very fiery ema datse Hundreds of dogs littered the street, more prevalent than pigeons in British cities.
