Hello Local guiding friends at my recent stay in Amsterdam I visited a special cheese store. As I’m always trying to improve my Eco footprint on this world (we just have one!) I joined a great initiative called 2Good2Go.
It’s a global initiative to reduce food waste that offers food that reaches the end of ‘sell-by date’ and is likely to thrown away, if not sold soon.
“Reducing food waste is one of the most important things we can do to reverse global warming.”
~Chad Frischmann, Cimate Change Expert
The app of TooGoodToGo offered a 10 euro surprise package at a cheese shop in the centre of Amsterdam. The shop is called Henri Willig and I took my bike out for a ride into the city centre.
I was impressed by the display of so many cheeses in this shop. I walked in and told I was there to collect my TooGoodTo Go package. The women behind the counter was happy I was there to pick it up. She informed me what was in the package and to be careful with the platter as there was olive oil in there so I should keep it upright.
Caption: The contents of my surprise package from Henri Willig and 2Good2Go.
In the package were two asparagus cheeses that are SO good and really taste like them. I never had this before. There is the platter with assorted stuff like olives, two cheeses, fig bread, sausage and the two packages of heart shaped spiced Biscuits.
Caption: So many cheeses at the Henri Willig shop. Great flavours and colours.
Cheese head
A cheese cup is traditionally a wooden, bowl-shaped cheese mold into which a spherical Edam cheese is pressed. Holes have been drilled in the bottom through which the whey can drain. The cheese head is closed with a round ( oak ) lid, called the follower, after which the whole is placed under the press that presses the moisture out of the curd .
A distinction is made between makers and setters . The maker is then the mold in which the cheese is pressed, the setter the mold in which the cheese is salted after pressing.
Figurative use
Metaphorically, the word is used for a round human head and by extension as a pejorative term for a dunce, especially by Belgians and South Limburgers as a mock name for the Dutch . Also in Germany, certainly in the western regions, Käskopp is common as a mock name for the Dutch. Residents of the towns of Alkmaar and Gouda are nicknamed ‘cheese heads’ because of the presence of a cheese market. Alkmaar has turned this nickname into an annual event, called ‘Kaeskoppenstad’, in which the aftermath of the Alkmaar relief of 1573 is staged.
Caption: A look inside the shop from the outside. So much cheese here!
Caption: Cheese on display in the Henri Willig shop.
Close to this shop there was another cheese shop from OLD AMSTERDAM
Caption: Inside the Old Amsterdam Cheese shop Caption: Place to visit for cheese lovers
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