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Fat Free Fromage Blanc! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fat Free Fromage Blanc!

Brian and Deana Dixon Skim Milk Fromage Blanc Demonstrated by 12-Year Old, Deana Remember Brian Dixon from the gr...

Osth Family Farm in North Zulch, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Osth Family Farm in North Zulch, Texas

The Osth Family Joan and Johan Osth (pronounced “ost” which means cheese in Swedish) are headed for self-suffi...

Using Whey in Soups - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Whey in Soups

Russ and Peg Hall have their own whey of making soup! I posted a review last July of Russ and Peg Hall’s wonderful book, T...

Making Romano with Suzanne McMinn - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Romano with Suzanne McMinn

Our Cheese Challenger Does it Again! As you probably know, last summer Suzanne McMinn (Chickens in the Road) accepted ou...

Merryl Winstein - Teaching Cheesemaking in Missouri - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Merryl Winstein - Teaching Cheesemaking in Missouri

Merryl visiting Ricki at her home in Ashfield, MA   If you live anywhere near St. Louis, MO, you have no excuse ...

Simple Definitions for Common Cheesemaking Terms - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Simple Definitions for Common Cheesemaking Terms

Attention Beginners! Many of you who are reading these blog articles have told me that you aren’t ready to make cheese. ...

Mustafa's Hellim, Also Known as Halloumi - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mustafa's Hellim, Also Known as Halloumi

Mustafa Hakkani took pictures and wrote out his step-by-step directions. A week ago, I posted an article about Mustafa (...

Mustafa Hakkani - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mustafa Hakkani

Making Cheese at a Sufi Community in the Catskills I was all set to write an article about Mustafa, a young Sufi (32) wh...

Learning to Make Cheese at a Bed & Breakfast Farm-Stay - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Learning to Make Cheese at a Bed & Breakfast Farm-Stay

Ward and Barb Halligan CornerStone Farm in Red Oak, VA What if you wanted to have a getaway weekend at a farm in ...

Brian Dixon - On Making Mozzarella in Alaska - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Brian Dixon - On Making Mozzarella in Alaska

At first, he wasn’t sure he would ever be able to make cheese … Brian Dixon first tried to make our 30 Minute Mozzarella ...

Questions and Answers About Making Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Questions and Answers About Making Yogurt

Jim Wallace We are determined to help you! One of the differences between our business and others is Ricki’s dedi...

A Gouda Time With Suzanne McMinn! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Gouda Time With Suzanne McMinn!

Suzanne is actually becoming quite the little cheese maker! Who knew? When we first found her at her wonderful website-...

Robinson Farm in Hardwick, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Robinson Farm in Hardwick, MA

Just Beginning Their Cheese Making Adventure Pam and Ray Robinson are the fourth generation of Robinsons to work thei...

Making and Serving Cheese Curds - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making and Serving Cheese Curds

  Photo by Sabra Horn, courtesy of Dave Horn’s blog 600 Varieties of Cheese Curds in Wisconsin Alone! Here in ou...

A Tribute to Sally Jackson - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Tribute to Sally Jackson

Retiring after 31 years. Sally Jackson of Oroville, Washington made her cheese the way it has been made for centuries in ...

Andrew Wilder Makes Chevre - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Andrew Wilder Makes Chevre

What Could Be Easier? Last January I posted three of Andrew Wilder’s recipes- one was for both Horseradish Cheddar and Ja...

Using Hygrometers to Measure Humidity - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Hygrometers to Measure Humidity

When it comes to aging your cheese, one of the most useful devices to have is a hygrometer (to measure humidity) or a the...

Locust Grove Farm, Farmstead Sheep's Milk Cheeses - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Locust Grove Farm, Farmstead Sheep's Milk Cheeses

T’was the Night Before a Snow Storm By Sheri Palko T’was the night before a snow storm, when all through the farmNot ...

Munster Anyone?  Suzanne McMinn Did it Again! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Munster Anyone? Suzanne McMinn Did it Again!

There’s snow in Appalachia, but our “Chick in the Road” is still moving forward with her quest. As you know, Suzanne McM...

Laughing Dog Farm in Gill, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Laughing Dog Farm in Gill, MA

Daniel Botkin is the definition of a “natural-born” teacher. Remember in school when there was a “cool” teacher the other...

Green Mountain Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Green Mountain Yogurt

Ricki, Diane and Sarah ( Diane’s niece) The Smallest Licensed Dairy in Vermont! Ricki first met Diane Wyatt at th...

Making Cheese During the Depression - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese During the Depression

Norridgewock, Maine Bernard Hilton was born 87 years ago in 1923. I met him at my church and he mentioned that his great...

Landeria Farm in Olathe, Kansas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Landeria Farm in Olathe, Kansas

Kathy Landers She’s Making Over 15 Varieties of Farmstead Goat Cheese! Kathy Landers has raised every single ...

Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, New Hampshire - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, New Hampshire

Making Farmstead Baby Swiss, Fiddlehead Tommes and Jacks Stan Richmond sat behind a desk for most of his working life. B...

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