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Like I said, Chileans are master cheese-makers

Local cheese, queso mantecoso las parcelas de Valdivia

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I cheated and bought a selection pack, camembert, queso mantecoso, edam, gruyere and a pretty fine attempt at a roquefort. behind a second mini Camembert and a wedge of parmesan

The parmesan was a bit young but grated nicely with my baby travel cheese grater. A super accessory for those emergency grating situations where you would not otherwise be prepared.

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Washed down with a couple of beers, local disco piss cristal, and the awesome kunstmann torobayo pale ale. See that 5%? that is 5 times as much as Aguila pretends to contain.

By johnny2009 on Sep 7, 2009, 14:23 in Chile forum.

sloopskipper says on Sep 7, 2009, 15:07:

Thanx, Johhny,

That's interesting. I was aware of nice Chilean wines, probably more than 25 years ago, back in Pennsylvania. But never knew the Chileanos to be cheese makers.

We have a nice selection of cheeses here, in Panamá, in gourmet shops and even in the supermarkets. There is some white mushy Panamanian stuff they "call" quesa (it looks like it may have been aged for at least 15 minutes). I also notice familar old British, and European, names on the shelves (NO Limburger, but that's even difficult to find in Limburg now).

I must look for some of these Chilean cheeses.

Arequipa is as close as I have been to Chile.

Some interesting stuff at:

http://www.exporlacchile.cl/cgi-bin/procesa.pl?plantilla=/eng/home.htm...

Seems that some people think "everybody's outa step but me".

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babygirl says on Sep 7, 2009, 18:48:

That looks awesome!!!

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whitewidow says on Sep 7, 2009, 18:52:

"baby travel cheese grater"

- now i have seen it all...

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johnny2009 says on Sep 7, 2009, 20:46:

WW, you know you need a baby travel cheese grater.

Forgot to mention, the gruyere was the business, super cheese

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babygirl says on Sep 8, 2009, 12:05:

I keep mine in my purse along with my corkscrew ;)

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