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...
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...
Ricki & Sarah at Mother Earth News Fair
Sarah Carroll From Ricki (aka The Cheese Queen) with Love In May, my daughter Sarah and I took a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, to a Mother Earth News Fair where we taught 2 workshops. This ...
Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans
The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, MA has a very successful Compensated Work Therapy Program for veterans. We have partnered with this program for several years and every ...
Veterans Appreciation Day, 2017
For the last 7 years, we have collaborated with the VA Healthcare Center in Leeds, MA to provide work for veterans at the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. The veterans in the program help us pac...
Her Story You may not know our friend Fromagina – she’s the lovely daughter of Mr. Fromage Blanc and Ms. Mascarpone. Ricki (the Cheese Queen) made this match 30 some years ago at the Royal palace...
Dehydrating Pears with the Cheese Queen
Ricki’s Dehydration Station Ricki is not only the Cheese Queen – she’s the Royal Dehydrator. In the last few years, she has dried apples, peaches, bananas, pineapple, tomatoes, kale and just abou...
Kathy Conley has worked at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. longer than any other member of our team – 22 years in July. If you have ever called us to place an order or to ask a question, ther...
Holiday Party for Our Team of Veterans-2016
Ricki with Jim Pruner, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Every year around this time, we have a holiday party for the veterans who work for us through the the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop...
Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2016
Ricki Carroll, “The Cheese Queen” with veteran, Wayne Amodio For the last 6 years, we have been honored to share part of our work load with the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop at the VA Central...
Jim, April, Ricki, Kathy, Ida, Mary (in back), Helen (Ida’s friend) in front, Jeri, Jeff, Angie, Jocelyn, Sarah, Mark For the last 10 years, we at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. have had the...
Mark, Jocelyn, Sarah and the Director of the Central Western MA Veterans Medical Center in Leeds, John Collins As you may know, we have our 30 Minute Mozzarella Kit assembled by the veterans who ...
Two years ago, Ricki started working on an old shed in the back of her yard which, at one time, had been a barn for her goats. One thing led to another, and, over time, this barn has become more ...
Our Holiday Party with the Veterans
Lynn and Ricki – don’t ask! This year we carried on with our tradition of inviting the veterans who work on our team (assembling our kits, etc) to come from their workshop in Leeds* to our shop i...
We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans
Ricki and Victor Rivera It’s been 6 years since the Cheese Queen first heard about a program for veterans called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. She contacted the VA Central Western Massa...
Cheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing
Tuesday, September 22nd Ricki traveled to our Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston for the public hearing on a bill which would require labeling of GMO (genetically modified) products. This is not ...
2015 American Cheese Society Conference
The 2015 American Cheese Society Conference was in Providence, Rhode Island this year (the 32nd annual conference). NECS almost always has a sponsor’s table , so we can meet cheese makers and reta...
This summer Ricki was invited to be one of the featured gardens in the Franklin Land Trust’s 24th Annual Farm & Garden Tour. This was a great honor and Ricki worked hard to prepare for the eve...
Ida, Angie, April, Sarah, Ricki, and Kathy Many folks don’t realize that our Cheese Queen is an artist (see previous article). She has worked with all kinds of media, but in the last few ...
Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2014
Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) We owe a great deal of our success as a business to the help of a VA program called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. All around the country, this p...
PART 3 - The Cheese Queen's Story: The Early 1980's
Phenomenal Growth! This is the third in a comprehensive series about the history of New England Cheesemaking Supply Company. We hope you will enjoy reading about our challenges and our triumphs. ...
Ricki's Demo for High School Students
We have recently expanded our mission at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co: To inspire young people to learn the art of cheese making. It is, after all, an important “back to basics” skill and it...
Launching the Massachusetts Cheese Guild
Barbara Hanley, President of the Guild welcomed us warmly. We’re looking forward to getting to know her better. The word “guild” comes from medieval times when craftsmen and merchants fo...
Pictures from the ACS 2013 Convention
Almost every year, for the last 30 years, since she helped found the American Cheese Society, Ricki has been attending the annual ACS convention. It’s held in a different part of the country (or...
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