Don’t you just love her? This is Valerie (A Canadian Foodie) who makes her living writing about food and educating folks about it. Until last year (and for the last 30 years) she taught in public...
And then sings our praises! Caroline Chirichella of New York City doesn’t exactly match our typical customer profile (not that any of you are typical – you make your own cheese!). But, we probabl...
Learn to Make Cheese at a Resort in Belize!
This is absolutely the resort of our dreams! Here in the office of New England Cheesemaking Supply, poised on the edge of winter, we are already planning our escape to the Caves Branch Jungle Lodg...
Maureen Herrera on Curing Listeriosis
Update on Maureen’s daughter, Mia Mia Herrera of LaBelle, Florida is now 13, but she was only 11 when we first interviewed her – New Cheese Maker #9 – Mia Herrera. We have followed her progress ...
A few more photos … In case you missed it, this is the sequel to Pictures of Ricki’s Daughter’s Wedding. These are all photos taken by Eric Limon, an amazing photographer – www.maweddingphotograp...
MeadowWild Farm in Barnum, Minnesota
Barb and Steve Adams of MeadowWild Farm Raising goats in their “retirement” I began communicating via e-mail with Barb Adams when she wrote to us with a question about making Halloumi....
Rebecca Siegel in Thetford, Vermont
Rebecca Siegel of Thetford, Vermont Another remarkable home cheese maker who has made it all and then some … Even after all the posts I have done about home cheese makers, I’m still amaz...
Pictures of Ricki's Daughter's Wedding
September 1st was a gorgeous day for Ricki’s oldest daughter, Jennifer to marry her handsome beau, Jason Novak in an outdoor wedding. There were 150 guests of all ages and one dog, Hadley, who bel...
Latte Da Dairy in Flower Mound, Texas
She loves her “girls!” I met Anne Jones of Latte Da Dairy a few weeks ago at the American Cheese Society‘s Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. She purchased a set of our Kosikowski bo...
30 Minute Mozzarella with Kevin Lee Jacobs
“A Garden for the House” and a Mozzarella for the fridge … We currently have 8 articles on this blog about making 30 Minute Mozzarella. This is the 9th and I will keep on posting them until you (...
String Cheese with Mara Welton
Mara Welton It couldn’t be any easier! Are you tired of spending a small fortune on those little tubes of string cheese? Why do it? You and/or your children will much prefer the taste ...
Stephanie Manley's Cream Cheese
Stephanie Manley knows how to copy restaurant food and she’s been doing it since 1995! If our math is right- that’s 17 years! She has a website loaded with recipes she has adapted for home use ...
Jim's Workshop #2 with Simona Carini
She’s still learning “after all these years.” You know a cheese maker is serious when she flies from her home in northern California to our neck of the woods, Massachusetts, twice to attend one...
Pictures from the "Cheese Rally in Raleigh"
The American Cheese Society has pulled off another great conference. It really is amazing the way the ACS produces this 4 day event every year, filled with seminars, workshops, meetings, ceremon...
Stephanie Soleil's Urban Cheddar
Stephanie Soleil in Africa Home is San Francisco but this girl gets around! Stephanie Soleil took a trip around the world with her partner, Justin Watt in 2010. She has posted loads of ...
The wire on the right is the probe which goes to the thermostat (next picture). Clyde Poser in Buckley, Washington earned his “do-it-yourselfer” honors by making his own temperature controlled ch...
WWOOFing* on a Sheep Cheese Farm in Italy
Jema Patterson (The lamb is wearing a sweater vest made of wool to protect it from the chilly springtime.) * What is a WWOOF?! WWOOF stands for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, ...
Wedding #3 Coming Up Soon! Ricki and Jamie It’s been a busy couple of years at the Cheese Queen’s Palace! In 2009, Ricki’s youngest daughter, Sarah married her sweetheart, Mark in a beaut...
French Style Feta with Gayle Starbuck
Gayle Starbuck Portland, Oregon has all the luck! At least it has Gayle Starbuck and that’s a lot. Gayle makes cheese, teaches cheese making classes and sells cheese making supplies to lu...
Country Critters in Winchester, New Hampshire
Making cow’s and goat’s milk cheese in southern New Hampshire Son, Jared, Mike and Julie Thibodeau (This photo comes from their Facebook page because Julie was the only one home when we came...
Granny T. with Charlotte Creating a good life in Butler, TennesseeWe first posted an article called Fromage Blanc with Terrie Travers two years ago when she was a fairly new cheese maker....
Nancy Wolff Is it really that easy?! Some folks just seem to be born to make cheese and Nancy Wolff is one of them. The post below is her first “attempt” at making a hard cheese. She ...
Strolling of the Heifers in Brattleboro, Vermont
During the parade, this evil cow kicked his ball right at me! This is huge!!! Ever since I started doing this blog, I have wanted to cover the famous Strolling of the Heifers weekend in...
Pasteurized Sheep's Milk Available in Colorado
Caille Gash and Marc Pfister Note: This article was written in 2012, but Cozy Cow Dairy is no longer open. For the story about that – https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/business/wind...
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