{"id":388,"date":"2015-05-05T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/201553looking-for-delicious-local-cheese-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:06:11","slug":"201553looking-for-delicious-local-cheese-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/201553looking-for-delicious-local-cheese-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for delicious local cheese in Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have finally found the spot!!!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>      <img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/5546a283e4b014548b72ed19\/1430692508766\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The other day I was introducing some locally produced cheese by Komagata cheese factory in Ohara, the problem is that it&#8217;s not easy to find and so far I&#8217;ve seen it only at one of the local product retailer Na no hana. So that&#8217;s quite limiting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning we went to Ohara market on the harbour. I thought it would be fish-only market but in fact it is a quite big (for Japanese standards) farmers market, selling also fresh vegetables and many other things than fishes. That&#8217;s where I found the stand for Takahide cheese factory. A farm higher inland in Isumi, near Kuniyoshi. Their cheeses look a lot like the ones from Komagata, with a little variation. I picked the Isumi white moon (\u3044\u3059\u307f\u306e\u767d\u3044\u6708) and did not regret that choice. It is perfect!!!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1936px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/5546fe3ae4b07bcfa0914be9\/1430715968217\/image.jpg\" alt=\" Takahide farm \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takahide farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Very much pleased with that choice, we decided to go and check out the farm directly. It&#8217;s a short drive from our house and a nice one among rice paddies and traditional farms. The Takahide farm is up a hill in a kind of group of dairy farms. There is a little shop where they sell directly, but the stock is not big and I recommend giving them a call before if you are looking for something specific because it seems they don&#8217;t hold stock very long and depending on the time not every thing is ready yet. They also sell fresh milk and seems to organize some events.<\/p>\n<p>Where it is interesting for you, if you live in Japan and looking for delicious cheeses is that you don&#8217;t necessarily have to go to a big department stores or an import stores to buy some cheese from France or Italy anymore! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.takahide-cheese.com\">Takahide cheese factory has an online shop<\/a> where they sell their cheeses and fromage blanc!!! It&#8217;s not cheap but it&#8217;s really worth the try and it&#8217;s local at least.<\/p>\n<p>Since cheese cannot be dissociated from bread for me, at least the cheese that you eat, right not the one to top pastas etc&#8230; I prepared a plain fougasse with just a little of salt to eat with the Isumi no shiroi tsuki cheese, a very good match. &nbsp;And I tried their reblochon style cheese: Makiba no taiyo \u307e\u304d\u3070\u306e\u592a\u967d with a whole wheat bread. It&#8217;s just insanely good!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1936px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/5546a2d1e4b01a9d5ad6ee9b\/1430692562750\/image.jpg\" alt=\" Isumi no shiroi tsuki and fougasse (Plate from Kutani yaki) \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isumi no shiroi tsuki and fougasse (Plate from Kutani yaki)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/55474968e4b0ac8a00c8e23d\/1430735212500\/image.jpg\" alt=\" Makiba no taiyo with whole wheat bread \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makiba no taiyo with whole wheat bread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Information:<\/p>\n<p>Takahide farm in Isumi \u9ad8\u79c0\u30c1\u30fc\u30ba\u5de5\u623f: http:\/\/www.takahide-cheese.com<\/p>\n<p>Ohara farmers market \u5927\u539f\u671d\u5e02: every first and third Sunday morning of the month, plus some extra days during holidays, on Ohara harbour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kutani yaki \u4e5d\u8c37\u713c: http:\/\/kaburaki.jp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have finally found the spot!!!&nbsp; The other day I was introducing some locally produced cheese by Komagata cheese factory in Ohara, the problem is that it&#8217;s not easy to find and so far I&#8217;ve seen it only at one of the local product retailer Na no hana. So that&#8217;s quite limiting.&nbsp; Sunday&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/201553looking-for-delicious-local-cheese-in-japan\/#more-388\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[328,463,359,346],"tags":[107,216,251,21,431,98,551,316,178,429],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}