Premium taste from a premium grass-fed cow butter ghee! Ah, New Zealand. A country famous for, amongst other things, grass-fed dairy and meat products! Thanks to #MichaelPollan and others, grass-fed is one of our top aspirational buzzwords these days but in this case, it is truly the case. Milkio is based near Hamilton (Kirikiriroa), which is located on New Zealand's North Island, just south of Auckland. They pride themselves on meticulous commitment to producing some of th

Our first German butter! Cultured, unsalted, ostensibly Alpine-pastured and organic, this butter is an impressive example of the wonderful butters Germany has to offer. Let's dig in - los geht's! When I lived in Germany, I completely took for granted all the easily-accessible fantastic bread, butter, milk and pork products. I lived in Bavaria with a wonderful host family for nearly a year and even though my host mother hated cooking and deliberately built her kitchen to disco

Tea Butter! Wait... what is Tea Butter? It's not butter tea and it's sold as a block of butter in the refrigerated section of supermarkets so...? You know what: let's just enjoy this. It's lovely. Aaah, Tea Butter! Until I did this write up, I had no idea what Tea Butter was. Mercifully, the Viennese tourism authority is here to shed some light on the matter. The TL;DR version is that Tea Butter or, in German Teebutter got its name in the 1800s either from an aristocratic acr

Any Irish person I've ever met has declared Kerrygold Salted Irish Butter to be the ultimate in perfection and pronounced everything else dreck. This review does not have a surprise ending because it is delicious and I value my limbs. The Irish are great at butter. They are also resourceful, creative, the life of the party and completely no-nonsense, which is very much the nature of Kerrygold butter. How something so consistently good can be so ubiquitous is beyond me, yet he