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Since 1978 we have been sharing the joy of home cheese making. With over 100 step by step cheese making recipes, helpful guides and easy to use supplies it's fun and easy to make cheese at home.

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3 New Videos From the Biegel Family

Screen shot from the cheddar video of Breanne and Brooklyn wrapping their cheeses. The Biegel family (of 11) in Grovedale, Alberta, Canada live and work on their large, self-sustaining farm. Amo...

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Exciting New Membership Club for Cheesemakers!

We think this is a real breakthrough for home cheesemakers! Kate Johnson at The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is offering a membership program with a LOT of great benefits for anyone making...

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Imran Saleh Update - The Pandemic in Pakistan

Imran in August Imran’s last 7 years have been quite an adventure and it has been our honor to post many articles about him during this time.* In 2013, when we first met him (virtually), he was a...

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Cathy Bergstrom in Greensboro, North Carolina

We’ve been in Greensboro for 17 years. I grew up in Portland, ME and met my husband in college in Milwaukee, WI. From there we migrated to NH for graduate school then to Williamsburg, VA and Nor...

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Chilipin Cheese Patties: Simple video recipe with easy-to-find ingredients. (click here) New Store in Charlotte, NC: The Culture Shop, dedicated to cheese, opened in April, right in the middle...

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Jamie Ryer's New Adventure

In Hawaii last February Last September we posted our interview with Jamie Ryer, a master cheesemaker in Fairfax, Virginia (https://blog.cheesemakingmart.com/jamie-ryer-in-fairfax-virginia/). Then, in ...

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Cheesy Cauliflower

This is a good “Keto friendly” recipe for vegetarians – high fat and low carb. It can be the main course or a side dish and you can replace the cauliflower with broccoli if you wish. We found i...

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The Great Pimento Cheese Revival

Our recipes are usually what you would call “traditional,” but this one is downright “retro.” And yet, we have been seeing it everywhere lately, so we think we might just be on the cutting edge o...

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Dale Calder on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada

Dale Calder with Angel. Almost everyone who has ever made cheese has heard of Dale Calder. He has 33 cheesemaking videos on his YouTube channel (see the links below). He posted his last one (Ma...

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Calandra’s Italian Cheese in Nazareth, Pennsylvania is for sale. The business has been a landmark in the town for 71 years. (click here) New Videos: During the pandemic, the amount of new chees...

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Strawberry and Goat Cheese Bruschetta

I found this recipe when I was looking for a dish to take to an outdoor, socially distanced pandemic meeting. I needed something where I could separate it on the platter so people would not have t...

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Kat Musgrove in Eugene, Oregon

Kat’s Story I tried goat cheese one day and knew I had to have more of it in my face. Buying it became expensive but lucky for me, Eugene is full of backyard goat farmers. So I began purchasing th...

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Drew Bayley in Ontario, Canada

Drew’s Story Hello from St. Catharines, a city in Canada near Niagara Falls! The Niagara region is famous for its wineries and tourist attractions along with fresh fruit and vegetables purchased ...

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Virtual Certification Program for Cheesemakers

Kate Johnson at The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is at it again! She’s always thinking of new ways to make cheesemaking fun for beginners and experts and anyone who loves cheese. This is ...

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Sarah Gerving in Hiawatha, Kansas

Sarah Gerving with her second batch of cottage cheese We love to hear from beginners! Sarah has just started making cheese and she’s loving it. We all know it’s an exciting adventure, so, if an...

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June is National (Mostly Virtual) Dairy Month

National Dairy Month was originally known as “National Milk Month.” It was meant to recognize and honor the dairy industry. It was started by milk distributors in 1937 and it is now led by the N...

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Cheesemakers Sharing About the Pandemic – A Series/5

The ‘sheltering in place’ phase of the pandemic is winding down somewhat in the US, so this will probably be the last episode in our series. We’re grateful for all the responses we received from ...

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How to Make Cheese Risotto on the Fly with What You Have

Image Credit: (Pxhere) Kathryn Cotton is a freelance writer with a sweet tooth and an obsession for cheese. She likes to cook and bake during her spare time. We’re delighted that she decided to...

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Kathy Rowe in Tyner, Kentucky

Kathy with her Sbrinz cheese. Kathy Rowe and her husband Scott are both retired from the air force. They have 100 acres (Sturgeon Creek Farm in eastern Kentucky) where they raise goats, chickens,...

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Rebecca Blaevoet in New Brunswick, Canada

Rebecca with Vickie. Rebecca is blind and she makes cheese. It seems impossible, doesn’t it? We asked her about this and she was kind enough to explain how she does it further on in this interv...

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Order To -Go: You can actually get this at Fleur de Lys in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It’s a Swiss cheese, artichoke, spinach, cream and turkey crêpe. (Courtesy photo) May is American Cheese Month...

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Mari's Fresh Brazilian Cheeses - Minas & Requeijão Cremoso

Mariana eating chestnuts which grow well in Slovenia. Mariana Veiga is from Brazil originally. She and her husband and young son traveled around the world three years ago, including Mongolia (Ma...

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Kate Johnson's 7-Day Cheese Challenge via Zoom

Virtual, Interactive Cheese Classes We have known Kate Johnson, the owner of The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado for many years. In the last 5 years, she has taught classes at her school, onl...

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Tony Hamblyn in New Zealand - Update

We first interviewed Tony in 2017 – click here At that time, he was working full time as a pilot for Air New Zealand. Now, with the country in lock down, the airlines are only operating at 5% of t...

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