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...
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...
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...
Shawn Saindon in Portland, Maine
Shawn Saindon Shawn Saindon is one of those people who manages to accomplish more with his life than seems possible. He works a full time job, goes to college, apprentices at a cheese com...
Quillisascut Farmstead Cheese and School of the Domestic Arts
That’s a long name for a farm! (Quillisascut means “place of scattered bushes” in Salish (Indian).) The owners, Rick and Lora Lea Misterly have earned this long name and their fame by surviving o...
Patrick Drennen in Arlington, Virginia
Patrick in Atlanta, inspecting cheese for it’s proteolysis breakdown. When one door closes, another opens… Patrick Drennen wrote a note to us recently and I asked him if I could share it...
Sister Gertrude Read in Virginia Dale, Colorado
Sister Gertrude with Ginny Sister Gertrude Read from the Abbey of St. Walburga was one of the entrants in our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest. We were very excited to learn about her life as a n...
Madi Shaw in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Madi and Lilly Madi Shaw is truly amazing. She’s a homeschooling student in the seventh grade, but she has already accomplished as much, if not more than most adults. She makes cheese, of ...
Haydee Chavis in Livermore, Colorado
Haydee and Gordon’s ranch Is it just me, or does this look like paradise to you? Haydee Chavis and her husband Gordon live on this gorgeous ranch with 17 goats* and a young Clysedale name...
Chocolate Cheese by Kim Odland
Kim Odland We love to receive recipes from cheese makers. We can’t test them all, but we can share them with you. (Be sure to leave a comment if you make this one.) Our technical advisor...
Susan O'Dwyer in Harrisville, New Hampshire
Susan is hooking the rug at right, which she designed. Susan O’Dwyer and her husband, Barry have a small farm in southern New Hampshire with a cow, a heifer and 50 chickens. Susan has bee...
Leila Hobbs (9) - Science Fair Winner!
Leila Hobbs Recently, Micaela Hobbs wrote to us about her daughter’s project in her school’s science fair. Leila is 9 and in the fourth grade at Colham Ferry Elementary School in Watkinsv...
Tommy Reddicks in Indianapolis, Indiana
Tommy Reddicks washing up after moving a Manchego from mold to brine You know the saying, “Anything worth doing is worth doing well?” Some people just seem to do everything well. When I r...
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