(March 5, 2014) Well, it's been a long time since I last blogged! I have been writing my book on Cheese Making. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Describing every step of cheesemaking in a way that you the cheesemaker can easily understand - that's a huge project! It's much more complex than the directions in my other book (Your Fertility Signals, Using them to Achieve or Avoid Pregnancy Naturally - Smooth Stone Press). Wow, I thought that one was hard to finish, but it took only 2 years. My cheese making book? Four years.
The other big news is I am going back to Denmark in summer 2014. After all this time away! I'm going on a long bike trip with my penpal, visiting friends, and working with a well-known Danish cheesemaker who is going to show me how to make all those great cheeses I ate there when I was a teenager. Using the old methods in the cheese vat.
Should I say I'm excited? I eat, breathe, think and dream about my upcoming trip! I have been learning Danish since autumn, and I hope to buy old cheesemaking books, which I will be able to read.
When I met with my penpal in the USA last October, she told me something amazing. She said, "Were you aware that, since my father was in the cheesemaking industry since a child, he insisted that we have only the very best cheeses in our house, and my parents drove long distances to get them?" Wow! So, i was eating the very best Danish artisan cheeses of 1970 (before large-scale industrialization). No wonder I was astounded by the flavors then, and can still remember them!
Well, back to the drawing board. I mean, the computer screen. It's a writing day.