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Shepherd’s Delight

Berrin Torolsan on the wonders of white cheese

The age-old ambrosia of nomadic herdsmen, there is still nothing to beat a really good white cheese made from fresh ewe’s milk. Silky-textured, yet firm and piquant, it is ideal at breakfast with olives or with a glass of raki at the end of the day – and brilliant for cooking

One April evening in 2010 some friends who had invited us to dinner kindly sent their boat to collect us and our guest, the illustrious restaurateur Michel Roux Sr, who was curious to find out what was cooking on the Bosphorus. I was armed with a faded copy of At Home with the Roux Brothers, ready to be signed, but it was going to be drinks time as we sailed past the yalıs into the sunset, and I was in a mild panic as to what to offer him during our short voyage. What manner of exotic meze might he expect? In the end we kept it simple: an aperitif of chilled rakı to stimulate the appetite, and a meze of sele zeytini (a delicacy of olives left to ripen and shrivel on the branch, then placed under weights in baskets to sweeten) with beyaz peynir from Ezine on the Aegean, a silky, slightly piquant white cheese. To our minds, a trio of simple but sublime tastes, but what would foreign taste buds make of such novelties?…

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