Kristy Foster in Yorba Linda, California
Kristy Foster and ? If you live near Yorba Linda, CA (35 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles), you might notice dust being kicked up just over the horizon. That would be Kristy Foster, a ver...
Leon Graafland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leon Graafland in the tulip fields, 20 miles outside Gouda. I grew up in the Netherlands; just outside Gouda in a small old village surrounded by dairy farms, rivers and dikes. Gouda is the chees...
Rita den Otter in Duncan, BC, Canada
Rita with her old Springer, Farley (14 1/2) and her pup, Abby (4 months) on a camping trip to Quadra Island off the east coast of Vancouver Island last June. I live in the beautiful Cowichan Vall...
Andres Schneiter in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
Andres Schneiter with his Raclette If you’re on our mailing list at cheesemaking.com, you’re familiar with the Monday Morning Moos which links to our blog articles. Recently, Andres Schneiter no...
Celso David Viviani in San Francisco, California
David Viviani at a reception for President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel. He was honored to shake the hand of the President. As always, it’s an honor to interview...
Kylie Carnegie in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kylie with Rémy, her 18 month old Schipperke. Kylie is just starting her cheesemaking adventure, thanks to the gift of a workshop she attended last summer. Her story reminds us that workshops ma...
Fat Sheep Farm in Hartland, Vermont
Todd Heyman and Suzy Kaplan of Fat Sheep Farm When Suzy Kaplan & Todd Heyman decided to get married, 6 & 1/2 years ago, they made a plan for their lives together: Buy a farm on top of a...
Marybeth Bullington's Orange-Walnut Holiday Cheese
Marybeth’s fabulous holiday cheese. Good news! It’s not too late to make cheese for the holiday season. Caerphilly is one that needs only 3 weeks to ripen and it just gets better and sharper af...
Yoel Blumberger: On the Role of Cheese in Israel
Yoel Blumberger making Camembert Yoel lives in Tel Aviv where he belongs to a group of cheesemakers who travel around the world, learning to make cheeses in the countries where they originated. I...
Grant Fritch in Lansing (Okemos), Michigan
Grant Fritch It’s always a surprise when we delve into a cheesemaker’s life and discover talent we could not have imagined. Grant has a LOT of achievements, even aside from his fabulous cheese, ...
Yoel Blumberger: Camembert de Normandie AOP and the Flocculation Point Method
Picture by Yoel Blumberger. Sources: freeworldmaps and Dairy Products of France In this article, Yoel Blumberger (a home cheesemaker in Tel Aviv, Israel*) has given us a thorough description o...
Ivy Netzel in Gourley Township, Michigan
Ivy Netzel, making kefir Ivy’s Story I live in a quiet little hamlet called Jam Dam (unincorporated Gourley Township) on the Cedar River in Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. M...
Yoel Blumberger: Cheesemaking Group in Israel and a Recipe for Castelmagno
Part of the group (with Castelmagno cheese) in front of a dairy high in the Italian Alps. Yoel is the 4th in (from right to left). We first interviewed Yoel Blumberger of Tel Aviv, Israel in 2019...
Hilda Elena Thielen in Marietta, Georgia
Hilda Elena Thielen Hilda loves to cook with natural/minimal ingredients so cheesemaking is a perfect fit. She has 3 adorable girls under the age of 6 and she is teaching them how to make the ch...
Imran Saleh in Pakistan - Camel Milk Cheese
Imran with a few of his artisan cheeses. This is our 9th post about Imran since 2013. Since we first got to know him, he has been an innovator. He taught himself to make cheese and, since then,...
Kathy Lynch in Queensland, Australia
Kathy Lynch in her studio I live on 45 acres of beautiful land on the Sunshine Coast with an abundance of forests, creeks and bees. A lot of my time is spent mowing, restoring the forest and gar...
Erol Sozen in Bloomington, Illinois
Erol Sozen Erol comes from Turkey, a country where cheese is highly valued. Most of the cheese there is the kind Erol makes – fresh, white cheese. It is served at all meals, particularly breakf...
Dennis Woods in Portland, Oregon
Dennis with Tomme, after light press They say if you want to get something done, ask a busy person. It’s true. I asked Dennis to answer my questions for this interview and he got right back to ...
Maureen Blais-Gestrich in Sarasota, Florida
Maureen with Butterkase, Dunlop and Red Leicester on the press, Mountain Tomme on the platter and Pyrenees on the bamboo mat. Maureen has made 49 different kinds of cheese so far and she’s a rela...
Making Cotija (Mexican Parmesan)
Lately, it seems like every recipe I see online and feel like making has Cotija in it. The corn dishes, in particular, appeal to me.* If I make the crumbly, salty cheese now, it will be ready for ...
Hal Wentzel in Niagara, Wisconsin
Hal pointing to an apricot blossom a few weeks ago. The trees were just planted last year. In our opinion, Hal and his wife, Carol, are pretty much the Eighth Wonders of the World(!) Twenty yea...
Jennifer Rollins in Sydney, Australia
Jennifer in her kitchen with a couple of vacuum packed cheeses and a tomme. Jennifer seems to be good at everything she does – she’s an “A student” through and through. She started a food blog i...
Rhonda Bates in Frisco, North Carolina
Rhonda with Earl and Louise Rhonda is a professional artist with many talents. When she was younger, she made her living any way she could – by hanging wallpaper, waitressing and cleaning houses...
Molly Brown in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Molly at left with her grandmother, mother, and dog Muffin. Molly Brown is no stranger to adventure as you will see in her story. When questioned about that, she said, “I think everyone who goes...
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