Shirley Hampshire in Kingston, Michigan
Shirley Hampshire Shirley and her husband, Randy have 6 grown kids and 9 grandchildren, so far. Due to Covid, daycare options are limited so they are finding themselves babysitting quite a bit r...
Gert and Connie Kok in Pretoria, South Africa
Gert & Connie Kok South Africa is a long way from most of us. However, the internet brings us together in fascinating ways. In the comment section of Paulette Walker’s interview, Gert reques...
Keith Stuart Phoenix in Warboys, Cambridgeshire, UK
Keith Stuart Phoenix There are a lot of good things that came out of the Covid lockdown. Many folks had a chance to do things they had never had time for before. Keith, for example, was undeterre...
Deb told us these little guys are the reason she moved to Texas. (They’re not required to do farm chores yet.) It’s always an honor when someone who’s as busy as Deb agrees to do an interview wi...
Alan Stables in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Wishing you all the best! To all cheesemakers – check this out if you sell your own cheese. This is the first time we have had the opportunity to interview a cheese salesman. Alan is the Sales D...
Paulette Walker in Cincinnati, Ohio
Paulette with her Gorgonzola Dolce, Bel Paese, and Blue Stilton When I first contacted Paulette about doing this interview she was reluctant. She wrote “I don’t know if you would find me nearly ...
Chris Harris in Springfield, Belize
Chris with a Wensleydale In 2013, I had the opportunity to spend 5 days in Belize at Ian Anderson’s Cave Branch Adventure Co. and Jungle Lodge. Ian was hosting a cheesemaking workshop taught by ...
Zorana's Queso Llanero (Venezuelan Hard Cheese)
Zorana Marquez Zorana lives in Humble, Texas. We interviewed her a few weeks ago (click here) and in the interview she mentioned a type of Venezuelan cheese she makes. Several readers asked if ...
Coreen Beaulieu in North Monmouth, Maine
Coreen with her daughter Moe! (University of Maine, Farmington Beaver Mascot – Chompers). I live with my husband Bill in North Monmouth. Bill is a retired firefighter and I work as a frontline su...
Fred Schenkelberg in Los Gatos, California
Fred on Dec 16th holding an Emmental that is done with warm aging and heading into the cave to mature. The large yellow wheel is the Formaggio Val’Campella which is ready for dry salting and also ...
Sherrie David in Goldfinch, Texas
Sherrie and her husband, Forrest Sherrie lives “Deep in the Heart of Texas” in a town so small, there is literally no information about it online (not even a Wikipedia blurb). If you’ve ever won...
Michelle Becker in Toledo, Oregon
Michelle Becker How we came to interview Michelle … The Cheese Queen is known in kingdoms near and far. (The Queen is also known as Ricki Carroll, the founder of our business, New England Cheese...
Jonathan Butlin in Northampton, England
Jonathan Butlin We have actually found a cheese maker who used to play in a heavy metal band. We think that is very cool. (If you don’t know exactly what heavy metal is, you are not alone. Man...
Zorana Marquez in Humble, Texas
Zorana Marquez in October, 2020. Photo by: Marco Chacon @mcfotologist Zorana’s Story I am in my early 40s. I was born in New Orleans, LA but I was raised in Valencia, Venezuela. I have been livi...
Camille & John Bock in Willis, Texas
Camille & John Bock Goodgrass Farm We get a lot of questions about where folks can find good milk for making cheese in Texas. We know it’s a big state, but here’s a farm, just north of Houst...
Making Cheese (and More) in Azerbaijan
We have seen a lot of videos about making cheese in the last 12 years since we started this blog. But, we have never been as captivated as we are with the Country Life Vlog (Kənd Həyatı) on YouTu...
Matthew McMahon in Monterey, MA
It’s amazing how much warmth a person can portray with their eyes only! I loved this interview! Matthew McMahon is a “force of nature” with unlimited energy and big plans for the future. He see...
Cindy Johnson in Seguin, Texas
Cindy at her #3 daughter’s graduation from the University of Texas at San Antonio (with a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering). Her husband is on her right. This was in May. We started this...
Haleem Moussa's Shanklish Cheese
Haleem Moussa holding his farmer’s cheese with pepper, oregano and parsley on the left and his labni on the right. Haleem grew up in a small farm in northern Lebanon. As a child, he used to watc...
Aline LaForge in Applegate, Oregon
Aline and her husband, Ned Tompkins have a small farm outside the tiny town of Applegate, Oregon (population 1,116). Along with their goats (7 does, a buck and a wether) they have a McNab pup and...
Making Pecorino Toscano and Variations by Yoel Blumberger
Yoel stirring curds One fun aspect of a blog that like this is that we hear from people all over the world (like Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel, interviewed in 2019 – click here). Since the...
Marybeth Bullington in Creswell, Oregon
Marybeth with her aged dill Caerphilly Marybeth contacted us recently to suggest that we interview a friend of hers who is a great cheese maker. We could see from the link she gave us that the o...
Kate's Mobile Cheesemaking Classes Hit the Road
Kate Johnson showing the curd to participants at her on-site Apple Valley Cider workshop. Kate Johnson, founder and owner of The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado is always up to something! We...
Maia Donadze in Madipola, Sri Lanka
Maia with her mini gouda We take notice when there is a comment at one of our interviews from Sri Lanka. That’s a long way from our little New England village! Courtesy of theendofhistory.net ...
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