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There you go!!! The difference between the mainland and the canaries!!! Queso de Burgos comes in a lovely cardboard box next the butter and costs an absolute fortune - and has (probably) been frozen - the texture is so different to queso fresco. I would never have dreamt they were one and the same thing!!! Apologies!!!!
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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requeson is like ricotta cheese - I want cheese with lumps in!!! Sorry, just being awkward!!!
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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Wow madsue, I had no idea that they do not produce Queso de Burgos in the Canary Islands. I guess that is why it is frozen, since it is sooo fresh, they must import it from the mainland. Yeah, as I said, "Reques�n" is as close as the Spanish come to Cottage Cheese but it is not the same and you are right, it is more like ricotta  I too would not mind getting my hands on a nice tub of lumpy Cottage Cheese :l: Been soooooo long! Anyone from the U.S.A. coming over want to deep freeze some and lug it over  ? Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12233 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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I used to be able to persuade friends to bring me cottage cheese (thats how I was able to show it to my cheesemaker neighbours). However, now there are "rules" due to the foot and mouth outbreak and no-one is allowed to bring milk products out here to me (not even chocolate!!!!) Can you believe that the canaries import Queso de Burgos, when the only live animals on this island are goats!!!!!
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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Jejejejeje, that is awesome that you used to get Cottage Cheese from friends in the UK  Not a long trip so I guess it kept a lot better than it would if one was bringing it from the U.S.A. Can just imagine a male buddy smugling it in, a tub-o-cottage cheese down his pants  Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12233 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Jer, I have a proposition for you: I'll mail you some large-curd cottage cheese (can you really freeze it??) if you mail me some Dispirin Extra, that soluble aspirin with paracetamol. Can't get that here in the states, and can't order it online. It ROCKS for curing dolores de cabeza, especially the kind that come from too much Rioja. |
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| Posts: 190 | Location: Ewing, NJ | Registered: 05 September 2002 | |
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Queso de Burgos and queso fresco are not the same thing. Young queso de Burgos is indeed fresco and most of it is sold that way, but there are quesos frescos produced in many parts of Spain. When Burgos cheese is aged a while, it is somewhat like Manchego, which, by the way, is one of the least artisanal cheeses in Spain and is primarily made in large cheese production facilities now. Queso de Burgos maybe available in the Canarias, but it is made in the province of Burgos from sheep's milk and some cow's milk. Queso de Burgos used to be sold more in its aged form and Hemingway used to bring it back to Paris to Gertrude Stein.
Gerry Dawes
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| Posts: 97 | Location: Suffern, NY USA | Registered: 23 March 2002 | |
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| Posts: 97 | Location: Suffern, NY USA | Registered: 23 March 2002 | |
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Come on Gerry, stop nitpicking! Everyone knows that "Queso de Burgos" and "Queso Fresco" refer to the same thing. Not referring to the literal meaning of "queso fresco" = fresh cheese of course, obviously  since there are many fresh cheeses in Spain and the world. Saludos, jer... p.d. thanks for the cheesy link 
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| Posts: 12233 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Jeremy wrote: "Come on Gerry, stop nitpicking! Everyone knows that "Queso de Burgos" and "Queso Fresco" refer to the same thing." I am not nitpicking. Queso de Burgos comes from Burgos province and can be purchased in either the fresco state or in various stages of aging. Perhaps you have heard of Paramo de Guzman, which one of my best friends made for many years. I never once had that queso de Burgos as a queso fresco, nor have I had Flor de Esqueva, made nearby, as a queso fresco. You may go into "your" local shop, ask for queso de Burgos, and get queso fresco, which in some places in Madrid may be any queso fresco, not necessarily from Burgos, just as every house wine, no matter where it came from, was represented as being from Valdepe�as. I can assure that if you go to most places outside of Castilla and Madrid and ask for queso fresco, it will not be from Burgos.
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| Posts: 97 | Location: Suffern, NY USA | Registered: 23 March 2002 | |
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Sorry to bring this post back again but I am sooo excited. Just back from a long day at the airport, and a client has brought me..... a tub of cottage cheese :l: (with lumps in even!!!). If I don�t eat it all this evening, I will try yet again to show my neighbours (those with the goats cheese factory) what I would like them to produce for me!!! These clients also brought me a box of Camembert (not the frozen one) which apparently stunk the whole plane out - and has done the same to my car!! Lovely!!!!!
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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For those of you in the United States, Artisanal Restaurant & cheese shop, at 2 Park Ave, NYC 212-725-8585 has a stunning collection of perfectly kept cheeses, including some 15-20 impeccable cheeses from Spain (Cabrales, Valde�n, Gamonedo, Afuega L'Pitu, Beyos, Torta del Casar, Serena, Ibores, Garrotxa, artisan Manchego from Miro, the sensational Montenebro from the Valle de Tietar in Avila, Mahon, and more). The owners just opened the new Artisanal Cheese Center, where classes on cheeses began last week. I did a lineup of seven sherries paired to seven cheeses and I have two more classes coming up, pairing Spanish white wine and Spanish red wines to a selection of Spanish cheeses. For more info check out Artisanal Cheese Center
Gerry Dawes
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| Posts: 97 | Location: Suffern, NY USA | Registered: 23 March 2002 | |
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