Life on the Wedge

Serious Eats in Qatar and beyond

  • British cheese,  Cheddar,  Cheese,  Travel,  Wales

    Sharp Relief – Snowdonia’s Little Black Bomber

    December 8, 2014

    I’ve blogged before about the lengths my friends will go to in search of new cheeses for me. My friend Rachel (yes, we have thought about forming a girl band called The Rachels) found this beauty at Waitrose on a recent trip to Dubai. Hailing from Wales,  The Snowdonia Cheese Company has been making contemporary cheese and more traditional types for several years now. This cheese is perhaps their most popular. They market it as a “cheddar with attitude” and that is very accurate. So sharp it could cut itself, it has what I call a “drawback factor”. That is “ooooooof that’s sharp”. It’s made from pasteurized cow’s milk with non…

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  • British cheese,  Cheddar,  Cheese,  European Cheese

    Cheesed Off

    February 25, 2014

    According to this piece from the venerable Daily Mail, it seems that the English are opting for more exotic and cheaper foreign varieties. A strategy that can be adopted in life and love too I guess! Cheddar cheese sales crumbling

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  • Artisan Cheese,  British,  Cheddar,  Cheese,  Food,  Travel

    You’re Crackers – Cheese Making Granny Fires Up Over Ban

    May 26, 2013

    The saga of the cheese rolling ban recently covered in this blog here continues. Now police asked a cheese making granny to help them with their inquiries by ceasing and desisting selling the offending cheese to undesirables. Ban my cheese? You’re crackers Anyone else thinks this sounds more like a plot from Midsomer Murders aka the most murderous county in the UK?

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Rachel Ann Morris

Rachel Morris - Qatar's Favorite Food and Travel Blogger

Life on the Wedge is your essential guide to all the good things – eating, drinking and traveling.

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