Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up

Attending cheese school is a no-brainer. We sooooo easily ditched our apartment, books, and TV for that! Cheese ranks high on our list of favorite fermented (the word fermented makes us feel a little icky, too) foods of all time. But other food bloggers have good reason to let school change the concept of cheese from "the unthinkable to the delicious."

We already liked the idea of an educational building dedicated solely to cheese. We were able to:
a.) learn about farmstead (“from the farm” rather than some huge institutional giant) goat cheese from Will Edwards, longtime Harley Farms cheesemaker
b.) eat it (with all sorts of fancy accoutrements
c.) sample wine pairings chosen by Alex Fox of Myth Restaurant and
d.) send our fellow cheese lovin' criminals friends and family there as a gift.

Cheese School night of course had a sponsor in the form of the recently launched upscale. They gave us a suh-weet goodie bag at cheese school that included honeys, garden (basil) in a bag -- perfect for our small apartment kitchen space-- and even a tea lolly with rosemary as a stick. Yes, the site name makes us giggle a little, with it’s cutesy name. We have strong and rather immature memories of elementary school songs that gurgle up as we internally note that toot and tutti sound so similar. We somehow tie the memories all together by internally humming lines like "Beans, beans the magical fruit…." whenever our inbox is hit with something from tuttifoodie.com. Other than that, we think it’s a cool specialty email subscription site, with a neato feature on food related blogs and books. For time crunched SFisters, their food, drink, blog, and travel bits arrive in easily digestible (around 90 words) posts.

We like this week’s analysis of cooking related “product peer pressure” over at Cook Here and Now. It’s realistic advice on how to cook and operate when our budget is tight (and whose isn’t during the holidays? Advice, please!). Further link shout outs go to CUESA’s veggie and fruit seasonality charts. Their charts are handy year round, but especially fascinating for upcoming Thanksgiving and holiday meals big and small.

SFist Mary Ladd/Jalapeno Girl contributing