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Ashley Keller - Making Cheese in Zambia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ashley Keller - Making Cheese in Zambia

If you are moving to Zambia, you might want to learn how to make cheese first! Ashley with her Caerphilly. And,...

English-Style Coulommiers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

English-Style Coulommiers

Simona and her husband, Robert Vogel on vacation in Hawaii It’s the same as the French version, but not mold-ripe...

Joanna Bulova - Making Cheese in Jamaica - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Joanna Bulova - Making Cheese in Jamaica

She started with Ricki’s workshop and now she sells her cheese on an island in the Caribbean! Joanna Bulova took Ricki’s...

Mystery Holes in Her Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mystery Holes in Her Cheese

It was a year-long quest for answers! Caroline Abbott used to be an accomplished goat’s milk cheesemaker. All that chang...

Cottage Cheese from the Cheesemakers' Journal - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Shannon Olson - Making Buttermilk Cheese & More in North Dakota - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Shannon Olson - Making Buttermilk Cheese & More in North Dakota

Logo from one of Shannon’s blogs She’s a Southern belle at heart! Shannon Olson is one of those women who inspir...

Caerphilly with Suzanne McMinn - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Caerphilly with Suzanne McMinn

Glory Bee and Suzanne sharing a moment! This one is her very favorite cheese, so far! Suzanne has been searching ...

Mascarpone: How to Make It & Recipe Suggestions - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mascarpone: How to Make It & Recipe Suggestions

  The Queen of Dessert Cheeses! Gareth Mark As with any cheese, there are many different ways to make Mascarpone...

Making Goat Cheese in Namibia, Africa - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Goat Cheese in Namibia, Africa

3 Weeks at a Cheetah Conservancy Janie Zencak and her husband have a small farm in Cle Elum, Washington they call the Fu...

Cotija - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cotija

Esperanza Pallana of Pluck and Feather Often Called “Mexican Parmesan” It’s Cinco de Mayo this week and that rem...

Making Kimchi with Our Mesophilic Culture - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Kimchi with Our Mesophilic Culture

Mark Nienow and his best friend on a clear August day in eastern Montana (I’m kidding!) Ingredients stra...

Creole Cream Cheese Pound Cake for Mother's Day - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Creole Cream Cheese Pound Cake for Mother's Day

Risky Case (93) and her daughter, Jeri This is possibly the easiest recipe in our book, Home Cheese Making. It’...

A Malaysian Scientist Experiments with Making Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Malaysian Scientist Experiments with Making Cheese

You might consider his approach unusual to say the least! Dr. Peter Achutha is a self-employed computer engineer, rubbe...

Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!!

I wrote this last month, so you can chalk it up to March Madness! We get kind of crazy around here at the end of a long, ...

Stirred Curd Cheddar with Suzanne McMinn - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Stirred Curd Cheddar with Suzanne McMinn

Suzanne does not really have a huge, monster hand- it just appears that whey! Everybody loves cheddar! Suzanne no...

Dalyn-The Dirt Road Diva & Queen of Quite Alot - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dalyn-The Dirt Road Diva & Queen of Quite Alot

Dalyn’s blogs have very cool graphics. Dalyn Weller of Yakima, Washington is a very busy lady! When Dalyn Weller puts...

Making Chevre, Freezing It and Using it in Recipes - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Chevre, Freezing It and Using it in Recipes

Spring means goat’s milk! And goat’s milk means chevre. Lots of it! As you know, sometimes you just can’t eat it all. In ...

Richard Horton and His Water Buffalo - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Richard Horton and His Water Buffalo

Richard with Tiger (just a puppy) 25 years ago, he decided to take a job with a 2 year contract in Venezuela an...

Making Cheese at an Independent School - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese at an Independent School

Richard Odman and Rachel Onuf giving out samples of cheese Northfield Mount Hermon School in Gill, Massachusett...

Making Cheese Curds with Brian Dixon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese Curds with Brian Dixon

Curds are Squeaking in Alaska! Brian Dixon just started making cheese a few months ago, but he is apparently a very fast ...

Making Feta with the Barefoot Kitchen Witch - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Feta with the Barefoot Kitchen Witch

Our favorite witch stirs up a powerful pot of Feta! I first interviewed Jayne in April, 2010, when she was just starting t...

Queso Fresco with Suzanne McMinn - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Queso Fresco with Suzanne McMinn

Ah! Fantastico! Suzanne has done it again, (but this time we sort of think she cheated because this cheese is so easy-it...

Dairy and Resort in Venezuela - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dairy and Resort in Venezuela

They are in their 80’s and still making artisan cheese! Joaquin Avellan and his wife, Carmen Isabel Rangel ...

Caerphilly - Almost Instant Gratification! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Caerphilly - Almost Instant Gratification!

The wait time is less than 3 weeks. I was reading our newly published book, The Cheeses & Wines of England & Fran...

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