Some one handed me some round small Boxs of French cheese outside of our home once Rosie.....as I walked through the front door with them I was shouted at from the top of our three story home to take out what ever I had just brought in.....the stench from the cheese reached the top of this big house in seconds......yet I could hardly smell it and I was holding it.......lol
That's kinda weird. Was it Limburger or something else D? I cannot imagine eating anything that stinks. Of course garlic does to some and I love garlic so I guess "stink" is in the nose of he beholder. Thank you for your reply! :)
I know there are some cheeses that so delicate they are not suitable for exportation. I love Brie and Camembert. I had a cheese called EXPLORATEUR which was a triple creme cheese. When I lived in Playa del Rey years ago there was a cheese store in Venice, a few miles away, that carried it. I had tasted once in a nifty wine shop that also had a small restaurant attached to it. It is delicious as I recall. It has been many years since I've had any. Thank you for your reply d! :)
Have you ever tried Halloumi .,it's made from goats and Sheeps milk and you grill or fry it... god it's so good once it turns a bit brown from cooking....
Are you kidding me? It is only made on the Island of Crete. Years ago the local Costco (a big box store) had some and we sampled it. It was to DIE FOR! We bought a few of them and sadly Costco stopped carrying them. We found it once at a pricey health food store for $12! I mean it is imported after all. There are knockoffs but none are as good as the original. Coincidentally during the Turkish slaughter of Armenians (the Armenian genocide ) my dad and his family escaped to the island of Crete from Izmir Turkey (Smyrna) where they lived for a few years before they came to America! That's how my dad learned to speek Greek. Anyway something else we have in common sweetie! Amazing that you would bring it up. Maybe not. Maybe everything is written in the stars and we are all only living out our destinies! Thank you for your reply D! :)
How strange Rosie......we go to Crete a lot and I swim in the bay where they filmed Zorba the Greek....I know that whole area very well..... Chania is the nearest city and the harbour there is amazing.....
Where did your parent live when they stayed there.....was you not with them ?
Im sure Costco sells Halloumi cheese in England Rosie....it's not expensive ,a pound in weight would cost no more than £2-3 pounds in money.......
I will look and see when I go to Costco again if they stock it over here.....I'm pretty sure they do...... We have hundreds of Turkish and Greek shops that sell it in London....all the major SuperMarkets sell it as well.....
You have COSTCO stores in your country D? Seriously? You are not kidding me? Wow. I did not know. You are so lucky that Halloumi is that available in London. Now about my dad and Crete and me. Are you at all aware of the Turkish massacres of Armenians? It happened in the early 1900's. All the men were taken away and killed. So my dad who was a teenager at the time and his parents escaped to Crete. At some point they came to America and he had an uncle who lived in Montana and they stayed with him. Later they moved to Illinois, Granite City to be exact. My mom and her parents escaped to Paris so my grandfather wouldn't be killed. They lived there a few years before they came to America and ended up in Chicago. They eventually moved to Michigan but I don't know if that was after my parents got married or before. The initial meeting between my dad and mom was arranged by their parents. They were both very good looking and I think they were smitten. They married in 1933 and I was born in 1937. That is the chronology. Where exactly in Crete my dad lived I never asked and he never told me. I have always regretted not being more inquisitive about my heritage and ancestors. I could have asked my parents lots of things and my grandparents too. But I never did. I just never thought about them not being here. SIGH. Thank you for your reply D! Eat a lot of Halloumi for Jim and me. We will enjoy it vicariously! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at April 28, 2018 6:20 AM MDT
There are two huge Costco stores in London.....one in north London quite near me and the other in Blue Water just across the Thames River next to the Queen Elizebeth Bridge....
We go there quite a lot although not everything the sell is cheap....Fresh fish ,meat and cheeses are good prices though....
You can source and food stuffs from around the world in London......Polish, Greek, Turkish,Japanese,Chinese ,American South America, Russian ,French ,Italy, Egyptian, Indian ,foods from Africa and North Africa....We import things from Australia and New Zealand ,Germany and just about anywhere from around the globe....
We we have a lot of Gree friends and know only to well what the Turks did to the Greeks.....
Its a shame parents of yesteryear never passed their history on to thier kids..... May be they said nothing as a way of protecting their kids from the horrors of war they had to endure.....
There is a really really old olive tree near the Monastery next to the Military airport at Chania ......The inside of its trunk has rotted out and you can walk inside of the tree....The tree is still alive and still bares Olives.... On the way up to Samaria Gorge ,you pass through old villages where the Germans wiped out whole villages, they killed men,women children and babies .....
There are so many beautiful places to visit there....
Look up Rethymnon Crete.......The roads are pathed with Blackish Granite ..
We don't have passports sweetie. And travel at our ages (82 and 80) is not something we would do well. The last time we were at an airport to travel with someone Old School was with us and did all the tricky stuff. You have to put numbers in kiosks and get to the right line and remove some clothing/shoes and keep moving and get to the right gate and board the plane and look for any space above your seat to place your carryon luggage and there is no space because some jacka** took it and jammed his/her stuff there. Then there is ear pain from the pressure. When we had someone to run interference for us it was still a royal pain in the arse. As you might have gathered I am a lousy traveler. All I do is complain! So going anywhere in a plane is probably in our past. The places you mention...the history of your country and Europe compared to piddly wet-behind-the-ears America is wondrous and sad and glorified and bad. I'm glad you have all that available to you. I will Google Rethymnon Crete. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply D! :)
You can view the world through your internet Rosie......Look also at Stavros Bay where they filmed Zorba the Greek.....I've swam all around that bay many times.....I ever snorkelled down to the bottom....lol
True my friend and I do. In the long ago olden days we had to go to the library to research. Of course you could only go there during the hours they were opened and sometimes someone else was reading the book you needed. They also had sets of encyclopedias that you could buy and keep at home and they would create a a new book yearly that would include all the things that had occurred that year to update you. Now at any hour of day or night you can go anywhere, research anything all in the comfort of your home. It's awesome plus I can talk to you daily. The only "distance" is time zones. When I talk to my Aussie friends I think they are like 17 hours ahead of me so they are often in tomorrow and I am still in today. New York is 3 hours later than California and I think Europe is 5 hours later than New York though I'm not positive about that. Have you ever traveled past the international date line and found yourself in tomorrow or yesterday in the blink of an eye? Thank you for your reply D! :) Oh. Have you ever visited the Acropolis? I have a book an Armenian friend who lived in Athens sent me decades ago about the Acropolis. I am especially fascinated by and with the Erechtheum. The Porch of the Caryatids. Ever see it up close D? If I were to travel that would be the first place I'd want to go. It calls to me for whatever reason.
This post was edited by RosieG at April 28, 2018 6:21 AM MDT
My stepfather used to eat Limburger sandwiches. The smell was quite foul. I learned that the chemical compound that give cheese its pungency is butanoic acid, produced by cheese as it ferments. Pure butanoic acid is extremely foul and can make one throw up. It should be used as a stench agent on battlegrounds as it is harmless but potent. The more pungent the cheese, the more acid.
I just though I should point these elements out to him...Hurling is such a waste of cheese....don't buy it unless your going to keep it I say.....hehe .
Precisely! What is your FAVORITE cheese D? The one you could eat daily and never tire of? Mine was a french triple creme cheese called EXPLORATEUR. I first tasted it in a wine shop/Delicatessen in Newport Beach, California that also sold various types of breads and had an alcove with a few tables/chairs for those who wanted to buy and dine right there. They also had a few hot dishes each day..mostly pastas. It was delightful and I had ordered a cheese plate. On that plate was EXPLORATEUR and oh it was heavenly! Also there was a domestic cheese called "Breakfast cheese" that I used to see in the markets but haven't seen for years. It was also a type of Brie. Now I'm getting hungry! Thank you for your reply! :)
I like most cheeses Rosie....I tend to fad on them if I taste ones I like... There is to much choice and thousands of different cheeses to sample....remembering French names for them is not that easy either....:( lol
I could never taste something that might make me barf. Now if you have a really "good" head cold and are all stuffed up then you couldn't smell it but I have heard that 80% of what we taste is due to the aroma. If your sniffer is out of whack you can only smell 20% of what you eat so it would affect your palate. Oh and I have heard of a plant whose stench is unendurable. A 100-year flower or something. Why anyone would stand in line to get a whiff is unfathomable to me! Thank you for your thoughtful reply and the specific info. Can the amount of butanoic acid be controlled/reduced/mitigated in some way? Limburger must taste good, right else why would anyone eat the stuff?
Nice Jugs 