You have heard us talk about La Antigua Educa, this workshop that is so special for us, but little have we talked about how it came about or how we did it. Are we traveling back in time?
When we decided to get into the world of cheese production
cheese making
we had no idea what was going to happen to us, and what we were going to learn.
As in everything, the beginnings were hard. We loved improving our products and seeing how people were interested in them. But we always had the same feeling: lack of cheese culture!
What made us most angry was to see that there were children who had never seen a sheep, who thought that milk came from the supermarket. So together with the General Foundation of the USAL we set out to change this, and La Antigua Educa was born.
This cheese curd workshop is mainly for children, but on many occasions we have taught it to adults or students of the sector. Because, let’s be honest, of those of us reading this article, who knows how cheese is made?
Antigua Educa is just that, learning, knowledge, but above all fun. And the fact is that children, and many adults, learn best by playing.
From where the milk comes from, through the components needed to make the cheese. What is rennet and what does it taste like? At what temperature does the milk have to be? And perhaps the most difficult to answer, what does a freshly made cheese taste like?
In our La Antigua Educa we respond to all of them, the children are involved from minute 1, we play and of course, we make cheese, and we eat it!
In all these years we have seen children who had never tasted cheese, or others who said they didn’t like it, but the one they had tried, and the most satisfying thing for us, their faces.
La Antigua Educa was born and lives for and to educate, so that both children and adults know how a cheese is made, feel each step and discover something new.
The only requirement to participate is to come with enthusiasm, desire to have fun, and of course, wear our bib, because at some point: “you’re going to drool”.
See you at the next La Antigua Educa!
