UK: Cool Britannia rules the whey - (Toronto Star)

October 9, 2007 – 5:57 pm

LONDON — Alex James, 39, bassist with British supergroup Blur and who once billed himself as “the second drunkest member of the drunkest band in Britain,” is talking cheese – British cheese, to be precise.
Cheese like his very own Little Wallop, a vine-leaf-wrapped goat’s cheese, which is produced in a soup kettle in the kitchen of his Cotswolds farm, where James, a father of three, has taken up the life of a country gentleman.
The story says that James’ transformation from London rocker to curd-carrying poster boy for the renaissance of British cheese would be laughable if not for the sheer, churning buoyancy of cheese-making in today’s food-crazed United Kingdom.
British home-grown creameries now claim title to the production of nearly twice as many unique varieties as France, where cheesiness is thought to be next to godliness. At the recent Great British Cheese Awards, held in Oxfordshire’s White Horse Vale, judges wrapped […]


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