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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.

FunGreat Resource for Cheese Makers! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Great Resource for Cheese Makers!

Do you know about this website? Cheese Science Toolkit Pat Polowsky works by day as a Senior Project Development Manager for a large food corporation. In his spare time, he created this amazing web...

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Easy cheesy recipe of the month: Green garlic, new potato and gorgonzola pizza bianco. (click here) Do you have a minute?: There’s something very relaxing about watching a squirrel eat cheese (r...

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Great article about how to make a summer cheese board – (click here) National yum: This video of 8 recipes with cheese in them was posted on National Cheese Day – June 4th. (click here) Renewabl...

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Mysterious New Milk Processing Technology

Photo of Naturo CEO Jeff Hastings supplied by Naturo. We have no idea what this is! (Well, we didn’t until the update at the end…) According to the CEO of Naturo All Natural Technologies, Jeff H...

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A short video about making cheese in Slovenia: A challenge for you: There are still 4 more days (until May 17th) to earn a free meal and a t-shirt at Wheel in Pottsville, PA by eating a grilled ch...

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Did you know about the very cool Imsil Cheese Theme Park in South Korea? News alert in Minnesota: A dairy farmer is playing mommy to 3 kids since their mother was stolen from his barn Tuesday. ...

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It’s soooo cute! Sadly, for us, it’s only sold by Sainsbury in the UK. Spring is on the whey! Congrats to the winner of the US Cheese Championship held March 7th – Guggisberg Cheese of Millersbur...

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Photo from Pillsbury. For recipe – (click here) Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at cheesemaking.com! A cheese by any other name – Can a vegan “cheese” shop in London legally use the word ‘c...

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New Edition of Home Cheese Making!

Ricki with her new edition Home Cheese Making, 4th Edition By Ricki Carroll Forward by Ari Weintzweig (cofounder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and former president of the American Cheese...

Aging CheesePlaying Music in the Cave?! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Playing Music in the Cave?!

Beat Wampfler with an Emmental. Photo from his Twitter “Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment” March 14th is a big day in Burgdorf, Switzerland. That’s the day when a team of judg...

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It’s called sonochemistry – A Swiss cheese maker is playing music for his Emmentalers to enjoy while they are aging (blog article soon!). (click here) But is this really food? – Costco is selling...

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We at New England Cheesemaking Supply Company wish you and yours the best this holiday season. Easy Festive Appetizer – Cranberry Pecan Mini Goat Cheese Balls. Goat cheese is always perfect when ...

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This new cheese Advent calendar will be available at Target stores any day now. It was created by Annem at the blog, So Wrong It’s NOM. There is another cheese calendar being sold at ALDI stores ...

Fun72 Cheeses You Can Make Now for the Holidays! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

72 Cheeses You Can Make Now for the Holidays!

You Can Do It! There is no finer way to express your love for family and friends than with the gift of homemade cheese. Everybody loves it (even vegetarians) and when you serve it to guests, they...

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Training a Goat to Pull by Julia Biegel

Julia Biegel We’ve posted a lot of articles about goats who provide milk for cheese, etc., but we haven’t said a lot about other working goats. There are goats who carry backpacks, goats who pul...

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Little Tidbits - 029

A Gluten-Free Meal to Make in Advance It’s fun when the weather is colder to have friends and family over for dinner. It’s especially fun when you have a meal already prepared, just waiting in th...

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The Cheese Queen is Listening

Andrew Forsthoefel and Ricki Carroll (AKA The Cheese Queen) The Cheese Queen has officially decreed that everyone in the cheese kingdom must read this book immediately: Walking to Listen By Andre...

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Bob's Homemade Limoncello

Now is a great time to start making holiday gifts (like the homemade vanilla extract we made a few weeks ago). All you need is the bottles and some cute labels and everybody’s happy (this drink, ...

FunHow to Host a Cheese Party by The Biegel Family - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Host a Cheese Party by The Biegel Family

In April 2017, we posted an article about the Biegel family in Alberta, Canada (click here). The Biegels have a farm where they raise goats (and all kinds of other animals) and make cheese (and a...

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This Month: New Videos! Korean Corn Cheese: Maangchi is the cutest chef ever! We love that smelly cheese!: Great PBS video. We never get tired of watching cheese being made: They eat grilled ...

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Why Butter Sculptures?

Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair in 2011 – exactly 100 years from when the first one was made. Photo credit: Pinimg.com It’s fair season and all across the country there are butter sculptures f...

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Making Vanilla Extract

Why make it? Vanilla extract is very expensive right now. I just bought a 12 oz bottle at BJ’s for $28 and that was way cheaper than anywhere else around here. At our local food co-op, Madagasca...

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From the National Archives This fall, Cowgirl Creamery (makers of award winning artisan cheeses) will be selling clabbered cottage cheese. Instead of adding cream to the curds, they will be addi...

EventsWine & Cider Competitions at The Big E, 2018 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Wine & Cider Competitions at The Big E, 2018

Behind the scenes at the judging In past years, I have volunteered at the cheese competition* at The Big E (Eastern States Exposition), but this was the first time I volunteered at the wine and ci...

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