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11 February 2012
My
new book, Cheese: Slices of Swiss Culture, is getting excellent
reviews and heartwarming feedback - we just celebrated the first 1000
copies sold. Though there are recipes, it's not really a cookbook, but
rather a journey around
Switzerland in search of the finest farmhouse cheeses. Each chapter (28
of them) profiles a particular cheese and attempts to answer the
questions: Why this cheese? Why here? How is it made? And - most
importantly - what does it taste like? There are around 270 gorgeous
illustrations, a combination of specially commissioned photographs by
Nikos Kapelis, and a selection of beautiful artwork from the Roth
Stiftung in Burgdorf, which illustrate the extent to which cheese is
anchored in Swiss culture. You can order the book direct from the publishers at info@bergli.ch or online here. In Switzerland you can find it at Bider & Tanner
bookshop in Basel, at The Bookshop (Orell Füssli) in Zürich, in Geneva at Helen Stubbs's gem of a store, OffTheShelf, and at the Stauffacher Bookshop in Bern. And it's now up on Amazon (.com and .de, shortly also on .co.uk)I'm gradually moving all the material over to my blog - if you haven't already done so, I recommend a visit soon! It's fast taking over as the buzzy, active (and interactive) window into my world of food, wine and travel. In future, suestyle.com will gradually subside into a gentle stupour and become a kind of static archive of past pieces.
On the wine front, if you always thought all Alsace produced was white, go to my latest piece on Zester to get up to speed on what the region's top producers are doing with Pinot Noir.
Where to Eat in Alsace, Basel and Baden is growing by leaps and bounds, so keep an eye on it - the same page is now up on my blog.
Keep on reading/cooking/tasting - and come back soon!
