Ricki hugging her fabulous creation It’s a creative frenzy! The Cheese Queen is at it again. It seems like every year, beginning when the sap starts flowing and the snow has melted, Ricki...
PART 2 - The Cheese Queen's Story: The First 3 Years
What had they gotten themselves into?! That’s their Jersey, Nellie in the middle By the end of our first episode (Part 1 – The Cheese Queen’s Story), Ricki and Bob had pretty much made the...
Our Partnership with Local Veterans
They’ve become invaluable to our business … There are approximately 120,000 veterans in the area of western Massachusetts where our business is located. They are all served by the Veterans Affair...
PART 1 - The Cheese Queen's Story
A Little Bit of the History of New England Cheesemaking Supply Company Ricki, from “Mother Earth News,” March, 1986 Many folks ask Ricki how she got started in the cheese making supply bus...
Jim's Workshop #2 with Simona Carini
She’s still learning “after all these years.” You know a cheese maker is serious when she flies from her home in northern California to our neck of the woods, Massachusetts, twice to attend one...
Pictures from the "Cheese Rally in Raleigh"
The American Cheese Society has pulled off another great conference. It really is amazing the way the ACS produces this 4 day event every year, filled with seminars, workshops, meetings, ceremon...
Ricki and Jamie are Raising Their Voices in Song! Everybody knows that the King and Queen of Cheese LOVE to sing-in fact, they have mandated that everyone in their kingdom must sing while they are...
Notes from One of Jim Wallace's Workshops
Simona Carini attended Jim’s advanced class in French Cheese Making this past May. You may remember Simona from her post about English Style Coulommiers which we published in June. Her website, b...
Ricki's Visit to a Small Dairy in South Africa
A Destination Spot for Organic Cheese and Produce Our intrepid traveller Last January, Ricki and Jamie went to South Africa to participate in a Village Harmony singing camp. (We admit we ...
Cottage Cheese from the Cheesemakers' Journal
Celebrating 30 years of recipes and news from our customers! This month is exactly 30 years from the date when Ricki and Robert Carroll published their first newsletter- The Cheese Press. They p...
Ricki at the 8th Annual Sonoma Valley Cheese Conference
Ricki holding Cobb Hill Cheese (Hartland, VT) at the Cowgirl Creamery A great experience for our well-travelled Cheese Queen! Ricki came back from this year’s Sonoma Valley Cheese Confe...
Making Our Cheese Press aka A Labor of Love
Jamie Eckley (The Cheese King) Gets it Done! There are over 10 different vendors involved in the production of our cheese press (E28) and Jamie knows them all. That’s because he found all of them...
Pictures from "Cheese-A-Topia"
Look Here to See Why You Must Come Next Year! The American Cheese Society’s Annual Conference was in Seattle last week, and NESC had a table there. Ricki, Jamie, Ricki’s youngest daughter-Sarah, ...
Teaching Preschoolers How Cheese is Made
How Ricki and Jamie taught a workshop for 3 year olds and lived to tell the tale! Ricki (the Cheese Queen) and Jamie (the Cheese King) have a very tight schedule, what with running the business, t...
See you in Seattle!!! As most of you already know, the American Cheese Society’s Annual Conference will be August 25-28th in Seattle, WA. This will be the 26th year for the conference which culm...
An Advanced Workshop with Jim Wallace
Q. Are workshops really all they’re cracked up to be? A. Yes!!! Ask any great American cheesemaker how they learned to make cheese and there will be at least one workshop in their answer. ...
Lady in Red Ricki and Jamie have traveled around the world to singing camps sponsored by Village Harmony Singers. In the little known picture at left, (it’s little known because Ricki doesn’t ...
We have moved! This article was written in March, 2010. Fortunately we took a few pictures of our big adventure. Here’s the story of our epic move: Ricki’s still smiling! Even when she’s...
These are just a few of Ricki’s creations… For the full tour of her amazing house – click here. From stained glass windows to blown glass and from gorgeous quilts to mosaics, her house is filled w...
Ricki's Coeur a la Creme Recipe
Valentine’s Day holds a special place in Ricki Carroll’s heart. If you have been to her workshops, you have met her sweetie, Jamie (otherwise known as “he who builds everything, fixes anything, s...
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