Discover Top Posts Tagged with #quickes

Devon Mary Quicke receives Lifetime Achievement Award at World Cheese Awards 2015

Mary Quicke and her dairy herd Devonshire cheesemaker Mary Quicke has received the award for Exceptional Contribution to Cheese at the World Cheese Awards 2015. The Quicke’s owner collected her prize at the World Cheese Awards dinner. (more…)

View On WordPress

#Cheese #Mary Quicke #Quickes

Roofline :: Posted on PigPog: http://pigpog.com/2015/05/01/roofline-3/

#mxpp #Photos #barn #farm #Quickes #roof #SEL55210 #wall #wood

Devon's cheese firm Quickes success at World Cheese Awards

Devon’s cheese firm Quickes success at World Cheese Awards

One of Devon’s leading traditional clothbound Cheddar producer, Quickes, has bagged three gold medals for their Mature, Extra Mature and Vintage Cheddars.

(more…)

View On WordPress

#2014’s Good Food Show #Cheese #Newton St Cyres #Quickes

Dear Dairy

A choice slice of Quickes Mild Cheddar materialised in the Dear Dairy in-tray last week. Quickes is based in Devon, has its own cows (500 dairy cows plus youngstock, in case you were interested), and has been producing well received cheese since ‘73. A traditional operation, but not afraid to take a punt (see: Quickes Elderflower cheddar, just released). Family run, Quickes’ leading light is Mary Quicke. She writes a blog about cheese making and farm life. It has lines like: “The hen pheasants, so courted and sought after by the cocks, disappear into the hedge to lay eggs, then disappear into the fox.” Dear Dairy has blog envy.

Now on to the cheese. The Mild Cheddar comes across all coy and modest, but it’s really a bit of a scene-stealer. It’s attracted great acclaim in its time, and in 2013 alone took 1st place at the Devon County Show and gold at Royal Bath & West. A younger cheddar aged 3 to 4 months. Only those truckles with the correct “buttery” flavour profile are selected for sale at this tender age.

The taste is creamy, smooth, elusive, nutty and, indeed, quite buttery. Most of it disappeared into a lasagne for my parent-in-laws. Despite the presence of mozzarella, ricotta, and a rather lairy parmesan, the Quickes could be detected singing beneath the clamour like a lark in a bar brawl (this simile inspired by Mary Quicke).

All this excellence at a tender young age put me in mind of Academy Award-nominee Saoirse Ronan, who at the age of 19 is already an extremely well respected actress (the director, Kevin Macdonald, described her as a “young Meryl Streep” in reference to ability as well as looks). Even more remarkable is that, despite a decade in show business, she hasn’t fallen prey to the traditional Hollywood child star meltdown; drowned in the lasagne of the party scene, if you will. She has claimed in the past that she “wouldn’t ever want fame like them (other child stars)” and prefers to focus on her work rather than her celebrity. In Quickes’ terminology, she’d be “buttery”. Ron Howard would also be buttery. Ryan Gosling—who seems to have cleverly transposed his meltdown into his art—also buttery.

However, stars such as Corey Feldman, Lindsay Lohan and Macauley Culkin—not buttery. They might have benefitted from the oversight of someone who knew that several more months of maturing in the dark of the cheese cellar might have produced a more balanced and lasting flavour—alas, perhaps something truly magnificent.