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Granja Cantagrullas | Through the lens of X-E2 | Rafael García Márquez

… In an inland Finisterre (end of the earth).

Ramiro (Valladolid, Spain), an inland Finisterre, as Rubén likes to call this little corner of inner Spain. He’s chosen this land to settle, to be where Quesería Granja Cantagrullas was to be founded. ¿who is this Rubén? He is a cheesemaker, but not an ordinary one. He masters his job. I’ve come here with a group of fellow photography enthusiast like me, in a visit organized by Piensa en Foto to know Granja Cantagrullasproject: a life project. Why do I say it’s not that easy to find someone like him? Not because in just two years he’s started from scratch a project that has led him to be one of the most renowned cheese makers in Spain. It’s not because he used to be working for UN (advisor in development projects) with no previous experience in anything related to cheese making at all. Not because, now that many Spanish young people are leaving our country in their quest for a future far from our unemployment huge figures, he’s decided to settle in a small corner of the inner lands of Spain. No, I don’t even say so cause he’s developed his mastery making cheeses working with methods far from the tradition in this part of Spain. Granja Cantagrullas produces cheese with raw sheep’s milk with a concept wich is far from the pressed paste cheeses produced in Castile (the region of Spain where Cantagrullas is). The qualities that make Rubén so special are his honesty, his self-confidence, his illusion and passion. And that is infectious…….

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