Asturias boasts some 40 varieties of cheese and the region’s capital city Oviedo is the host for the 2021 World Cheese Awards, so Good Cheese set out to discover how cheesemongers and chefs serve up the local delicacies. Photographer and journalist MÒNICA R. GOYA is our guide as we head to northern Spain.
Eat it like a local RICE PUDDING CHEESECAKE Teresa Camacho of Bar Camacho (in Anieves on the outskirts of Oviedo) belongs to the Guisanderas Club, an award-winning association that was created by female cooks in Asturias to preserve the area’s traditional recipes and to celebrate the role women play in protecting local food culture. With such an embedded tradition, cheese appears on local menus in every shape and form – from starters to desserts. At her restaurant, Camacho combines Lazana’s Afinado artisan cheese with rice pudding to make an unforgettably soft cheesecake that melts in the mouth, with a surprising texture thanks to the rice pudding. facebook.com/clubdeguisanderas/ 34
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