Feta cheese is a delicious and popular Mediterranean cheese for salads, pizzas, and other dishes, but it is not always available at the grocery store. Read on to discover the best substitutes for feta cheese. Before researching a substitute for feta cheese, it is important to understand what it is and how it is made. Feta cheese is a soft, brined cheese made by curdling sheep’s milk, or sometimes a mixture of sheep’s and goat’s milk, into cheese. The process starts with adding natural rennet or lactic acid bacteria to the milk and allowing it to coagulate. This process separates curds from whey. Next, the curds are cut, heated, and stirred to expel moisture and form a semi-solid cheese paste....
A way with words has coloured the career of this Wellington polyglot. Words: Chris van Ryn Photo: Carolyn robertson The fact that “e” comes before “f” proved seminal for 14-year-old David Ryan. “I remember this quite vividly,” he says. “It was 1981. I went to the Christchurch library looking for a French language book. As I ran my finger along the spines looking for ‘f’, I came across ‘e’, and the word ‘Esperanto’ sprang out. It changed my life.” David began studying Esperanto. With its simplified grammar, it was surprisingly accessible, and he excelled. Four months later, he acquired Esperanto penfriends in Spain and France, and in January 1982, he attended his first five-day Esperanto congress in Christchurch. For the...
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With so many weekend trips from Seattle to choose from it’s hard to know where to start With spring break just around the corner, we know you’ve got getting out of town on the brain. If you aren’t planning an escape to a sunny destination, we think a PNW road trip should be on your list. That’s why we mapped out seven weekend trips from Seattle that are bursting with things to do this spring. You’ll find festivals, sandy beaches, clam digging and more at these nearby destinations. All you need to do is pack up a few things and head out of town. Walla Walla Allison Sutcliffe Come for the wine, stay for the relaxed vibes of this eastern...
Pizza fave Porta enlivens one of the all-pedestrian blocks of Newark Avenue in Jersey City. Photo by Laura Moss A great destination restaurant can be worth the drive from anywhere—even more so the dining destinations we celebrate here. Each offers a range of choices and prices that take the worry out of a night on the town. ASBURY PARK A proper pour of Guinness draft should take exactly 119 seconds, says chef/owner James Avery. Photo by Christopher Lane At the turn of the 21st century, restaurants led the way in the revitalization of this Shore town, once so emblematic that local hero Bruce Springsteen called his 1973 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park. New places such as Sonny’s Southern Cuisine,...
