Susan Bates in San Mateo County, California
Susan Bates She’s living in paradise! It’s hard to imagine a lovelier location for growing food and making cheese. No wonder her first raw milk chevre looked fabulous! First chèvre with violas...
Home Cheese Making Competitions
It’s a wonderful idea and, yet, it seems to be the impossible dream. Why is it a great idea? Cheese making is basically a solitary pursuit and local contests are a great way for cheese makers to g...
Great Resource for Cheese Makers!
Do you know about this website? Cheese Science Toolkit Pat Polowsky works by day as a Senior Project Development Manager for a large food corporation. In his spare time, he created this amazing web...
Easy cheesy recipe of the month: Green garlic, new potato and gorgonzola pizza bianco. (click here) Do you have a minute?: There’s something very relaxing about watching a squirrel eat cheese (r...
Martha Harrington of Conway, Massachusetts told us about this recipe when it first came out a few weeks ago in Food & Wine. With corn season almost upon us here in New England, it seemed to b...
Rob Goris in Sydney, Australia
Australia is a country where raw milk of any kind is simply illegal to sell. Fortunately, it is possible to make fabulous cheese from pasteurized milk if you know what you’re doing, and Rob Goris ...
Stock photo of Edam in Belgium We have been thinking a lot lately about climate change. It has become clear that our food choices make a difference. Apparently, in fact, the food we eat contrib...
Great article about how to make a summer cheese board – (click here) National yum: This video of 8 recipes with cheese in them was posted on National Cheese Day – June 4th. (click here) Renewabl...
Stony Creek Farm in Montgomery, MA
Gabriella Steria Gabriella Steria, a Mennonite, was raised on a farm in upstate New York. She moved to Western Massachusetts 20 years ago when she was asked to teach at a Russian Christian school...
Arch Angel Farm & Holy Goat Creamery in Manhattan, Kansas
Suzanne Bennett Karen Kushner of Red Gable Cheese Workshops in Tennessee sent us this note recently: “Since I think you’re always looking for interesting articles, I wanted to put a bug in your e...
Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel
I am 66 years old, married, have three children and five granddaughters, all of them heavy and knowledgeable cheese consumers. I am a computer specialist by profession, worked 11 years for IBM as...
Shelley Whitehead from Saskatchewan, Canada
That’s Shelley on the right with an enthusiastic cheese vendor. Shelley Whitehead is a home cheese maker from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. This past spring she took an exciting cheese trip and ...
Mysterious New Milk Processing Technology
Photo of Naturo CEO Jeff Hastings supplied by Naturo. We have no idea what this is! (Well, we didn’t until the update at the end…) According to the CEO of Naturo All Natural Technologies, Jeff H...
A short video about making cheese in Slovenia: A challenge for you: There are still 4 more days (until May 17th) to earn a free meal and a t-shirt at Wheel in Pottsville, PA by eating a grilled ch...
Lingotto cheese in the drying box. Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel created this box for drying cheese and was kind enough to send us the directions. We will be interviewing Yoel for the June...
Khristy Grindle in Marion, Indiana
I am from a small town called Marion, Indiana (fun fact: James Dean was born here). Marion is located about an hour north of Indianapolis. I have been teaching high school mathematics for 9 year...
Our friend, Mariana Veiga sent us this recipe and we absolutely love it! Mari is from Brazil originally and now she and her husband and 5 year old son are living in Bled, Slovenia. Mari used to b...
Did you know about the very cool Imsil Cheese Theme Park in South Korea? News alert in Minnesota: A dairy farmer is playing mommy to 3 kids since their mother was stolen from his barn Tuesday. ...
Beth-Ann Fortunato in Mena, Arkansas
At the goat festival in Perryville, AR last summer. We got goats because my husband is lactose intolerant and I always wanted them. Lucy in 2011. We moved to Arkansas in 2010 from SW Florida – ...
Imran Saleh in Lahore, Pakistan - An Update
Imran with his daughter, Mehren and his wife, Ayesha We first wrote about our friend, Imran Saleh in February, 2013 when he was making cheese in his home (click here). Within a few years, he had...
Vivian and her husband, Tom Gory Vivian Lucero knows a thing or two about making cheese. She seems to have tried every recipe on our website! And, from her pictures, it appears that it all went...
Super-Easy Baked Broccoli Cheese Balls
Served with ranch dressing. This appetizer is ridiculously easy to make! And, it’s a great way to get your family to eat their broccoli. If you want to make it in advance, you can shape the ball...
La Belle Vallee Fromagerie in the Cariboo
Florian Bergoin Q. What exactly is the Cariboo (besides a great 7 letter Scrabble word meaning ‘large deer!’)? A. It’s an incredibly beautiful, mountainous area in British Columbia where caribo...
Making Mozzarella in the Slow Cooker
Many thanks to Kathy Love in Tucson, Arizona for sharing her pictures from a demonstration she did showing how to make 30 minute mozzarella in a slow cooker. This will be of special interest to th...
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