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Why Wall Stenciling? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Why Wall Stenciling?

Painting by Donna Estabrooks Why, indeed??? It’s time consuming, the clean-up is horrendous and who cares about their wa...

Lynda and Claude Garneau in Ottawa, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Lynda and Claude Garneau in Ottawa, Canada

Claude and Lynda standing in front of the cave he built from a closet. What a Team! Claude buys the equipment, sets it u...

Paul Stovall and His Butterkase - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Paul Stovall and His Butterkase

Paul Stovall (67) of Sonora, California is the Frank Sinatra of the cheese making world- doing it his whey! What do we m...

Dan Crowther, Roller Derby Husband and Cheese Maker - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dan Crowther, Roller Derby Husband and Cheese Maker

Dan Crowther lives in the small village of Valley Falls, NY (population around 450). It’s about 1/2 way between Albany, ...

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave"

Pedro and his Saanen, Rosie The issue is humidity. You can measure it with hygrometers but controlling it is another ma...

Bandaged Cheddar by Bleu Mont Dairy - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bandaged Cheddar by Bleu Mont Dairy

Photo courtesy of Murray’s Have you ever tasted a bandaged cheddar? They aren’t available in most grocery stores, so th...

Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Cookies - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Cookies

These blueberry lemon ricotta cookies puff up as they bake and have an amazing taste that’s closer to a cake than cookies....

Miranda Bradley, Roller Derby Cheese Maker - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Miranda Bradley, Roller Derby Cheese Maker

By Cateland White (Note: Cateland is a writer (and a cheese maker) who lives in Las Vegas with her husband and her daught...

How to Make Ricotta with Your Sous Vide Circulator - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make Ricotta with Your Sous Vide Circulator

The sous vide method has taken the cheese making world by storm! (In case you aren’t familiar with it, sous vide is the pr...

How to Add Humidity to Your Room Sized "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Add Humidity to Your Room Sized "Cave"

Yes, we do sell hygrometers for measuring humidity, but adding humidity is another story. For years, many of us have been...

Have You Tasted Pleasant Ridge Reserve? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Have You Tasted Pleasant Ridge Reserve?

When our official cheesemonger, Marc Freshman from Murray’s picked Pleasant Ridge Reserve to be the first prize in our 201...

How to Revive Furniture with Fabric Markers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Revive Furniture with Fabric Markers

I was shopping at our local Salvation Army 6 months ago and I saw a swivel chair for $25. It seemed solid, but the fabri...

Jack Aldridge in Iowa - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jack Aldridge in Iowa

I recently added Jack Aldridge to my list of the most fun and interesting cheese makers in the entire world. I admit – t...

Marc Freshman, Cheesemonger at Murray's - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Marc Freshman, Cheesemonger at Murray's

Marc Freshman is the official cheesemonger for our 2016 Cheese Give-A-Whey which starts March 1st. Every time you place ...

Murray's Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Murray's Cheese

Murray’s flagship store in Greenwich Village Murray’s Cheese is New York’s oldest cheese shop – it has been a Greenwic...

Greg Perkins in Ecuador - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Greg Perkins in Ecuador

Vacuum sealing the Cheddar with Paula, Pablo and Patti Cabascango. Greg in the background. Greg Perkins is from Chicago ...

France Benoit in Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

France Benoit in Canada

France with her bounty in August France Benoit lives in Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, a town w...

Chocolate Cheese from Ela Duban in Poland - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chocolate Cheese from Ela Duban in Poland

Ela Duban who lives outside Warsaw, Poland began making cheese when she found a Polish edition of our book, Home Cheese M...

10 Chocolate Cheeses to Love - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

10 Chocolate Cheeses to Love

How many different kinds of chocolate cheeses are available to buy for your Valentine? Not that many actually. The list b...

Chocolate Covered Cheese Bites for Valentines Day - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chocolate Covered Cheese Bites for Valentines Day

For the love of cheese and chocolate This is the best Valentines Day gift for anyone who loves cheese and chocolate! Not ...

5 Grilled Cheese & Chocolate Sammies! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

5 Grilled Cheese & Chocolate Sammies!

We know you know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. And, if you love cheese as much as we do, you probably make a dar...

What is the FDA? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

What is the FDA?

We hear a lot of news about the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) when they make decisions about cheese. It’s scary to ...

Asparagus Mushroom Swiss Quiche - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Asparagus Mushroom Swiss Quiche

For those of you who don’t already know, Jenny Carroll is Ricki’s oldest daughter. She is, among other things, a great c...

Connie Paris in Surprise, Arizona - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Connie Paris in Surprise, Arizona

Surprise is located just northwest of Phoenix. It seems like an amazingly short time ago, but it was actually founded in ...

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