A Donna Hay-inspired three-cheese pasta (OK, maybe four) washed down with a Amherst Pyrenees Dunn’s Paddock Shiraz 2009 — just one of Michael Vaughan’s wine highlights from the past week.
Cheese
Say cheese! Or better yet, eat it
Mildlife are a Melbourne-based electronic band with a fondness for cheese. Band member Tom Shanahan compiles a list of the greatest moulds, including mind blowing fromager d’affinois and bocconcini that tastes like “miniature clouds of romance.”
Fatty falsehoods: the Australian cheese industry’s Great Dairy Deception
Bodalla cheddar is one of the country’s biggest selling brands but it certainly isn’t made in Bodalla. Richard Farmer discusses the cheese industry’s great dairy deception.
How to make Steve Jobs’ head out of cheese
Liven up your next dinner party by serving cheese carved into the shape of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ chiseled cranium. A step-by-step guide, including recipes for Apple Cheese Plate, Spicy Steve Nachos Supreme, and iPad Thai.
Taste-testing breast milk cheese
A New York chef is in hot water for making and serving cheese out of his wife’s breast milk. Naturally, food critic Gael Greene just had to sample some. The verdict? Sweet, soft and perfect with a glass of good Riesling.
Italian bank accepts cheesy collateral
Credito Emiliano SpA in northern Italy is accepting parmesan cheese as collateral to keep the region’s cheesemakers in business while the country weathers the recession. The bank’s vaults now hold 17,000 tons of high-quality parmesan, each 80-pound wheel valued at about 300 euros.
April in Paris *sigh*
Oh Paris, with your darling streets named after grammarians and revolutionaries and mathematicians. A writer muses on lilacs and cheese and radishes.
By the way dairy cows, Australia hates you!
The life of a dairy cow is short and grim
RATED RUDE Australia’s Superbowl Economy and how it will work.
Wayne Swan explains…
The Annual General Meeting of the International Association of Australian Cheese
Thanks for coming everyone…
The parable of the donkey, the cheese and the lactose intolerant liitle man in the automatic teller machine
A donkey and some cheese were on a blind date
The first week and a bit in Parliament
A First Dog On The Moon review
