The Best Cheese on Earth

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Born too late to create a small Portuguese society of cheesemakers in a small island in the Atlantic Born too early to create a small Portuguese society of cheesemakers in a small moon of the solar system

"he wasn't socially conditioned to talk about himself." as an introvert i love this so much, it's such a nice way of looking at pretty much anyone who may be shy or otherwise quiet.

As a Torontonian I'm fortunate to live amongst tens of thousands of Azoreans that have settled here over the last 50 yrs or more. I'm familiar with Sao Jorge cheese -- it's a spicier, tangier, hard-cheese and I love it! So cool to see the heritage of the cheese in the men like Rudy.

My island. It's mine! Got some of that Queijo de São Jorge in my fridge right now. No cheese like it. What I didn't know until recently was that São Jorge was known as the islamd of wine long before it became the island of cheese. The vines were wiped out by disease and never made a comeback. Then the cheese took over. Happiest cows on Earth, the Azores. Even heard of a farmer who soothes his cows with the Beatles. And as a descendant of old Van der Haagen myself, I salute you with the family motto. .. Panem, Caseum et Vinum!

I think the world could do with a few more Rudys. Thank you for introducing us to this one (and his beautiful daughters, of course!)

The Azores are absolutely one of the most interesting and unique corners of Europe because they're literally on a world of their own and where they weren't blessed with lots of land, they made up for in quality of their products.

"The best thing this world ever produces is men like Rudy". A wonderful, wonderful video about something otherwise so obscure, I might never had heard of it. But thanks to you, I have. I'm gonna get me some of Rudy's cheese.

Here in New Zealand our country also has been built upon by the Dairy industry for generations now, though nowhere near as long as the Azores. I like this video, in New Zealand we would say you can taste the love , dedication and skill of the people who made it. I really like how you focus on Rudy, the dairy farmer ,the essential individual as the focus of the source of the best of humanity

Blessed are the cheese makers.

This was a really nice video. I'm glad you made and shared this, and I'm glad Rudy and all the others participated to let you tell it. Especially the cows.

I truly respect it when people simply enjoy what they do and love to show it to people who are interested. Whatever else I think about a person, that always gets respect from me.

"The best this world ever produces are men like Rudy" Amen! I love these kinds of videos where you get to see NORMAL people, you can see their struggles in the wrinkles on their face, makes my heart warm.

Rudy has a full web tattoo on his elbow. I would not want to fight rudy, I don't think he'd go down

As a cityboi, I worked and lived on multiple cow farms in the Netherlands. And learned to really respect the level of work that goes into our food. Including the people. This was really interesting to hear to me. Curious how the world works sometimes. Thank you ♥

You have a real gift for making these videos. Thank you!

What the hell, I randomly bought my first Sao Jorge this week and happened to be eating some when I watched this! 😂 It is a damn nice cheese, very interesting and complex flavour. Great to learn more about its heritage

Tomorrow my pilgrimage to find São Jorge cheese begins. Thanks for a another wonderful story.

I was waiting him to say something like "and the secret ingredient for the best cheese on earth is love" but I guess that would have been too cheesy.

"The best thing a world like this can produce is a man like Rudy" AMEN!