We are very happy to share with you a blog post written by Shawn Saindon (Of Song and Cheese). Shawn lives in Portland, Maine and he was one of the entrants in our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest ...
Karen Hartmann in Battambang, Cambodia
Karen Hartmann fits nicely into our file of fascinating cheese makers! She is both an entrepreneur and a missionary, selling her own yogurt and Tzaziki while she and her husband are doing mission...
Noreen O'Connell in Milford, New Hampshire
Butternut Farm Last December, we had our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest and Noreen O’Connell was one of our entrants: How Cheese Making Has Changed My Life 6 years ago we got our first Al...
Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2014
Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) We owe a great deal of our success as a business to the help of a VA program called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. All around the country, this p...
Christy Grecsek A lot of folks are vegan because they don’t want to eat animal products and others can’t eat dairy products because of allergies and stomach problems. No matter what the r...
We’re interviewing the folks who entered our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest last December. Kim Ellis was one of them, telling us how she got started making cheese. We loved her essay, and it was...
Poutine with Andrew B. Chisholm
The Migrant Chef There is absolutely nothing like a good food blog – the pictures are amazing, the directions are tried and tested (and usually fairly simple), and there are actual comments from t...
Susan Olson in Sebastopol, California
What could be better than to be a cheese maker in Wine Country?! Susan Olson is a financial advisor at a company called Abacus Wealth Partners, a nationwide financial planning and asset management...
Melody Cramer (17) in Midvale, Utah
Selfie taken with her Kindle camera We think it’s great when students choose cheese related subjects for their school assignments. It’s nice to know that the younger generation appreciate...
Photo from AsiaOne World Camel’s milk is relatively low in fat, so the yield is low as well. But, cheese can be made with it and, where there’s a will, there’s a whey. Due primarily to...
The Big E Gold Medal Cheese Competition, 2014
Worst picture ever taken of Elena Hovagimian! There are very few regional cheese competitions held in this country for one very good reason-it’s a LOT of hard work! That’s why it’s amazi...
Phil Tillman in Arroyo Grande, California
Phil Tillman is a retired veterinarian, making goat’s milk cheese and living the good life on the coast of California. Up until 10 years ago, he worked in private practice and for the US Departmen...
Luigi Stranges in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Here’s a master home cheese maker if there ever was one! Luigi Stranges makes big, beautiful wheels of cheese and he ages them for years. His family and friends must be among the luckiest peop...
Mozzarella with Non-Fat Milk and Cream
Jessica with her 2 year old daughter and her robot scarecrow I love to find good blog articles about making cheese. The pictures and the first-hand accounts bring the process to life. I ...
Anna Ford in Longmont, Colorado
Anna Ford with Galaxy Anna Ford just finished the fourth grade. She is being home schooled and she attends a school program once-a-week. Last summer, Anna and her family bought a house do...
Jerrilee LaMar in Poseyville, Indiana
Poseyville, Indiana is a small town (population just over 1000) located in the southwest corner of the state. Although you might think of Indiana as being cold and windy, this particular area is ...
In 2011, we posted – Mascarpone: How to Make It & Recipe Suggestions. Here are a few more fabulous recipes: Spaghetti with Mascarpone, Meyer Lemon, Spinach, and Hazelnut From: The Kitc...
Volunteer at the American Cheese Society Conference 2014!
It’s time to enlist! The Cheese Guard needs you! If you’re going to the American Cheese Society Conference in Sacramento, California from July 23rd – August 2nd, or if you just want to volunteer ...
FDA vs Artisan Cheese Makers - Wooden Shelves Issue
As you may have heard, the FDA recently cited cheese makers in New York State for violating their “Good Manufacturing Practices.” because they were aging their cheeses on wooden shelves. They is...
Tina Tilley in Newburgh, Maine
Tina Tilley Tina was a contestant in our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest last year. After you’ve read her essay (below) you will see why we wanted an update on her busy life. Many folks wi...
Roland Wilk in North York, Ontario, Canada
Roland Wilk Roland Wilk falls into our “proof that cheese makers are the most interesting people” category. When he started making cheese, he designed and built his own mechanical stirrer...
Emma Reeves and Her Science Project
Emma Reeves Emma Reeves (12) in Orem, Utah is already knowledgeable about the role milk plays in the quality of cheese. For her science project this year, she compared 5 different kinds o...
Danny Kostiuk in Ontario, California
Danny Kostiuk It’s always fun for us when we hear from new cheese makers. Danny Kostiuk began making cheese in February, 2013. A few weeks after he began, he was so excited, he wrote to...
A Cheese Making Demo in Southern Vermont
Laine Crandall showed how to milk a goat Last year around this time, I posted an article about a goat show I attended at the Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association, located in Marlboro, V...
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