Fun Along The Whey

Upcoming Cheese Festivals (Current)

Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) at the Festival of Cheeses in 2015. This used to be the last event at the annual Americ...

Maureen Blais-Gestrich in Sarasota, Florida

Maureen with Butterkase, Dunlop and Red Leicester on the press, Mountain Tomme on the platter and Pyrenees on the bamboo ...

Making Cotija (Mexican Parmesan)

Lately, it seems like every recipe I see online and feel like making has Cotija in it. The corn dishes, in particular, ap...

Vivian Lucero's Trip to the California Artisan Cheese Festival

Cheese please! In 2019, we had the pleasure of interviewing Vivian – Vivian Lucero in Otis, Oregon. She is a master che...

Hal Wentzel in Niagara, Wisconsin

Hal pointing to an apricot blossom a few weeks ago. The trees were just planted last year. In our opinion, Hal and his ...

Jennifer Rollins in Sydney, Australia

Jennifer in her kitchen with a couple of vacuum packed cheeses and a tomme. Jennifer seems to be good at everything she ...

Rhonda Bates in Frisco, North Carolina

Rhonda with Earl and Louise Rhonda is a professional artist with many talents. When she was younger, she made her livin...

Molly Brown in Altoona, Pennsylvania

Molly at left with her grandmother, mother, and dog Muffin. Molly Brown is no stranger to adventure as you will see in h...

Whoops! Cheese Making Disasters

Molly Brown in Altoona, PA told us her first bandage wrapped cheese, a Lancashire looks worse than it actually was. She ...

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 o...

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 fascinati...

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 t...

Deb Pero in New Boston, Texas

Deb told us these little guys are the reason she moved to Texas. (They’re not required to do farm chores yet.) It’s alw...

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 h...

Paulette Walker in Cincinnati, Ohio

Paulette with her Gorgonzola Dolce, Bel Paese, and Blue Stilton When I first contacted Paulette about doing this intervi...

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 Adventur...

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 ...

Coreen Beaulieu in North Monmouth, Maine

Coreen with her daughter Moe! (University of Maine, Farmington Beaver Mascot – Chompers). I live with my husband Bill i...

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 w...

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 a...

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 coo...

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 i...

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 ...

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 bee...