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Deb Pero in New Boston, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Paulette Walker in Cincinnati, Ohio

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

Tidbits - 065 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 065

Love this! From Lame Dad Humor (click here) Video for Kids: Two young boys do a great job of making goat cheese rolled ...

Chris Harris in Springfield, Belize - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Sherrie David in Goldfinch, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sherrie David in Goldfinch, Texas

Sherrie and her husband, Forrest Sherrie lives “Deep in the Heart of Texas” in a town so small, there is literally no in...

Michelle Becker in Toledo, Oregon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Tidbits - 064 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 064

500 Prizes Including Cheese: January 12-27. (click here) Recipe of the Month: Short video with an inter...

Zorana Marquez in Humble, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Matthew McMahon in Monterey, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Matthew McMahon in Monterey, MA

It’s amazing how much warmth a person can portray with their eyes only! I loved this interview! Matthew McMahon is a “f...

Tidbits - 063 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 063

Wallace & Gromit Wooden Postcard: Holiday gift from out of this world. (click here) DIY Cheesy Gift Basket: Make ...

Cindy Johnson in Seguin, Texas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cindy Johnson in Seguin, Texas

Cindy at her #3 daughter’s graduation from the University of Texas at San Antonio (with a master’s degree in Biomedical E...

Haleem Moussa's Shanklish Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Haleem Moussa's Shanklish Cheese

Haleem Moussa holding his farmer’s cheese with pepper, oregano and parsley on the left and his labni on the right. Halee...

Aline LaForge in Applegate, Oregon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Aline LaForge in Applegate, Oregon

Aline and her husband, Ned Tompkins have a small farm outside the tiny town of Applegate, Oregon (population 1,116). Alo...

Tidbits - 062 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 062

World’s Best! This soft goat cheese from Spain won the World Cheese Award. (click here) Finally India! This cheese fr...

A Cheese Lover's Thanksgiving - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Cheese Lover's Thanksgiving

Murray’s Thanksgiving cheese board We love the traditional Thanksgiving meal as much as anyone, but this year, we feel l...

Valencay-Style Cheese by Marybeth Bullington - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Valencay-Style Cheese by Marybeth Bullington

We interviewed Marybeth Bullington of Elfin Acres in Creswell, Oregon recently (click here). Marybeth gets a LOT of fresh...

Making Pecorino Toscano and Variations by Yoel Blumberger - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Pecorino Toscano and Variations by Yoel Blumberger

Yoel stirring curds One fun aspect of a blog that like this is that we hear from people all over the world (like Yoel B...

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