Traditionally made with unpasteurised ewe's milk, the artisan cheeses have a ridged rind made from
esparto grass.
The use of wood and non-wood forest products such as cork for long-term carbon storage, and reinforce the investment potential of smallholders working in forest-based industries, such as pine nuts,
esparto grass, mushrooms and honey.
8,435,546 B2; Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg, has patented a cosmetic, dermatological or pharmaceutical preparation that is comprised of (a) one or more lipids, which comprise at least one lipid selected from mineral oils, cetearyl isononanoate, caprylic/capric triglycerides, ethylhexyl cocoate, octyldodecanol, cyclic silicone oils, and linear silicone oils: (b) one or more waxes comprising at least one wax selected from beeswax and other insect waxes, paraffin waxes, synthetic waxes, chemically-modified natural waxes, triglyceride waxes, fatty acids, fatty alcohols, candelilla waxes, carnauba waxes, Japan wax,
esparto grass wax, cork wax, rice wax, sugar cane wax, flower waxes, leaf waxes from conifers, coffee wax, flax wax, and sesame wax; and (c) one or more gases.
6 pounds) in weight and are marked with a distinctive zigzag pattern around the sides that emulates the traditional
esparto grass molds once used to make Manchego, and a wheat ear imprint on its top and bottom.
The paste is then scooped into round
esparto grass baskets, which are stacked in a pile ready for the next stage
The exploitation of
esparto grass was abandoned many years ago in Libya and Morocco and is dying out in Algeria and Tunisia.
In particular they failed in their attempt to substitute
esparto grass for rag before adopting wood as the basic raw material for the industry.
These include a collapsible salt-bag, a bottle with its neck in the middle, a rice-sifter, a stanchion to prop up other stanchions, a suet-container, a foghorn-key, a leather grape, a new method of stencilling on ivory, basalt cubes for roofing swimming-baths, a fox-trap, a dummy jellyfish, waterproof onions, false teeth for swordfish, a method of freezing meat-skewers, a hand-woven
esparto grass egg-cosy which plays 'Thora' when released from the egg, a glass stilt, a revolving wheelbarrow, an iron thumb for postmen .
The Saltgrass in Hanover Place, which may have got its name from a nearby mill which used
esparto grass to make paper.
