souschef.co.uk). They taste milkier and sweeter than any others.It’s easy to sneer at this level of effort (‘Ooh, it’s all Piedmont hazelnuts now…’), but there’s nothing wrong with caring.
It’s true that nobody will notice if you just use a bag from the supermarket. They will, however, both notice and appreciate it if you’ve found an ingredient that will stop them in their tracks.
Snobbish nonsense? It just seems a good idea – if you have the time – to find hazelnuts grown by someone who cares.Pear and blue-cheese salad is a classic, but it can be intense.
The cheese is often sharp and can, if you use Roquefort, be mouth-puckeringly salty (there’s both pleasure and pain in eating it).
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