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Tragedy for Cheese Makers in Italy - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tragedy for Cheese Makers in Italy

The quake struck the Emilia Romagna region 30 miles north of Bologna Millions of dollars worth of cheese ruined O...

Hastings Farm in Suffield, Connecticut - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Hastings Farm in Suffield, Connecticut

Lauren Hastings Some farms just make it look easy… Did you ever notice how some dairy farms are so beautiful, you...

Manchego with Dannon Nicholes - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Manchego with Dannon Nicholes

Dannon Nicholes stretching 30 Minute Mozzarella No, that isn’t Dannon stretching Manchego, but it sure is a cut...

Career Opportunity at Smith's Country Cheese in MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Career Opportunity at Smith's Country Cheese in MA

Dave Smith (The Big Cheese, aka The Aged Gouda!) Here’s your chance to change your life… Dave Smith and his wif...

Feta with Tammy Kimbler - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Feta with Tammy Kimbler

Tammy Kimbler One Tomato, Two Tomato Equals One Great Blog! Tammy Kimbler works as an executive producer at a fil...

Milk Burfi (Barfi) from India - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Milk Burfi (Barfi) from India

Maria Dsouza Whether it’s called Burfi or Barfi – it’s a sweet treat! Maria Dsouza hails from Mumbai so she named...

Bill Moskos in Japan - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bill Moskos in Japan

Bill Moskos You’ve got to admire those intrepid adventurers who decide to make cheese in a foreign country! It ca...

The New Urban Homestead Stores - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

The New Urban Homestead Stores

Portland Homestead Supply Co. Cheese making is just one of many back-to-basics skills supported by the new “home...

An Award Winning Science Project - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

An Award Winning Science Project

Kira and her proud parents What kind of milk works best when making cheese… Kira Pelletier is a 6th grader at the...

Gouda with Tara Tarbet - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Gouda with Tara Tarbet

Making cheese is a good skill to have when you live on a farm in Highland, Utah We first “met” Tara, when she wrote to us...

Caerphilly with Enola G.

Enola G. Making cheese is a survival skill to this family. There is really no excuse for any of us to say that we...

Greek-Style Yogurt with Kevin Lee Jacobs - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Greek-Style Yogurt with Kevin Lee Jacobs

We’re big fans of this master gardener! Why? Well, to put it simply – he’s just someone you want to know – you know? He’s...

Making Cheese in Thailand - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese in Thailand

It’s definitely a challenge! JEM is an American who has lived in Thailand for many years. (We are not using his full nam...

Using Vacuum Sealers to Age Your Cheese? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Vacuum Sealers to Age Your Cheese?

Photo courtesy of Tara Tarbet at Welcome Home Farm It’s all about the taste! If the only reason you aren’t makin...

Mike Vrobel's Grilled Brie - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mike Vrobel's Grilled Brie

Mike Vrobel Don’t tell anyone, but he has never made cheese! We’ll have to change that. We are sending Mike Vrob...

Sulguni - A Stretched Curd Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sulguni - A Stretched Curd Cheese

Similar to Mozzarella, it is very popular in the Republic of Georgia We are very excited that Maria Schumann of Cate Hill...

Ricotta Salata with Shannon Olson - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ricotta Salata with Shannon Olson

It’s “comfort food” in the long, cold North Dakota winter. We interviewed Shannon last May and posted her recipe for dry ...

30 Minute Mozzarella with Carly & Jean - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

30 Minute Mozzarella with Carly & Jean

Making Sense out of Making Mozzarella … Carly and Jean describe their blog, Making Sense of Things as, “A thought-provoki...

Cheese Coloring - Always an Option - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Coloring - Always an Option

Why add color to cheese Sometimes you just want a little color in your cheese. Many folks who grew up on store-bought ch...

Michael Bronk's "Folly" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Michael Bronk's "Folly"

He makes his own cheese his own way and it’s good! We love to see folks take the basic principles of cheese making and im...

Singing and Cheese Making Internship in Vermont - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Singing and Cheese Making Internship in Vermont

This is a unique opportunity! If you love to sing and you’re interested in learning how to make cheese, here’s an interes...

Parmesan with Gavin Webber - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Parmesan with Gavin Webber

Great articles and videos make his website a cheese maker’s dream. Maybe I favor Gavin’s work a little too much – I’ve al...

Fromage Blanc from Soul Flower Farm - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fromage Blanc from Soul Flower Farm

As a cheese maker, Maya Blow is getting off to a great start! Maya and her family have created their own little slice of ...

Louise Dutton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Louise Dutton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Louise with a couple of her Camemberts. (The “73” has special meaning to her (see the end of this article) She kn...

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