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Using Whey in Your Garden - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Whey in Your Garden

Ricki Carroll’s garden in 2015. It’s summer and some of us don’t do much cooking this time of year. But, we’re making c...

Susan Bates in San Mateo County, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Susan Bates in San Mateo County, California

Susan Bates She’s living in paradise! It’s hard to imagine a lovelier location for growing food and making cheese. No ...

Home Cheese Making Competitions - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Home Cheese Making Competitions

It’s a wonderful idea and, yet, it seems to be the impossible dream. Why is it a great idea? Cheese making is basically a...

Korean Style Cheesy Corn - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Korean Style Cheesy Corn

Martha Harrington of Conway, Massachusetts told us about this recipe when it first came out a few weeks ago in Food &...

Rob Goris in Sydney, Australia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Rob Goris in Sydney, Australia

Australia is a country where raw milk of any kind is simply illegal to sell. Fortunately, it is possible to make fabulous...

Cheese and Climate Change - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese and Climate Change

Stock photo of Edam in Belgium We have been thinking a lot lately about climate change. It has become clear that our fo...

Stony Creek Farm in Montgomery, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Stony Creek Farm in Montgomery, MA

Gabriella Steria Gabriella Steria, a Mennonite, was raised on a farm in upstate New York. She moved to Western Massachus...

Arch Angel Farm & Holy Goat Creamery in Manhattan, Kansas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Arch Angel Farm & Holy Goat Creamery in Manhattan, Kansas

Suzanne Bennett Karen Kushner of Red Gable Cheese Workshops in Tennessee sent us this note recently: “Since I think you...

Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel

I am 66 years old, married, have three children and five granddaughters, all of them heavy and knowledgeable cheese consu...

Shelley Whitehead from Saskatchewan, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Shelley Whitehead from Saskatchewan, Canada

That’s Shelley on the right with an enthusiastic cheese vendor. Shelley Whitehead is a home cheese maker from Regina, Sa...

Mysterious New Milk Processing Technology - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mysterious New Milk Processing Technology

Photo of Naturo CEO Jeff Hastings supplied by Naturo. We have no idea what this is! (Well, we didn’t until the update a...

Yoel's DIY Cheese Drying Box - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel's DIY Cheese Drying Box

Lingotto cheese in the drying box. Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel created this box for drying cheese and was kind e...

Khristy Grindle in Marion, Indiana - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Khristy Grindle in Marion, Indiana

I am from a small town called Marion, Indiana (fun fact: James Dean was born here). Marion is located about an hour nort...

Mari's Brazilian Cheese Bread - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mari's Brazilian Cheese Bread

Our friend, Mariana Veiga sent us this recipe and we absolutely love it! Mari is from Brazil originally and now she and ...

Beth-Ann Fortunato in Mena, Arkansas - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beth-Ann Fortunato in Mena, Arkansas

At the goat festival in Perryville, AR last summer. We got goats because my husband is lactose intolerant and I always w...

Imran Saleh in Lahore, Pakistan - An Update - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Imran Saleh in Lahore, Pakistan - An Update

Imran with his daughter, Mehren and his wife, Ayesha We first wrote about our friend, Imran Saleh in February, 2013 when...

Vivian Lucero in Otis, Oregon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Vivian Lucero in Otis, Oregon

Vivian and her husband, Tom Gory Vivian Lucero knows a thing or two about making cheese. She seems to have tried every ...

Super-Easy Baked Broccoli Cheese Balls - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Super-Easy Baked Broccoli Cheese Balls

Served with ranch dressing. This appetizer is ridiculously easy to make! And, it’s a great way to get your family to ea...

La Belle Vallee Fromagerie in the Cariboo - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

La Belle Vallee Fromagerie in the Cariboo

Florian Bergoin Q. What exactly is the Cariboo (besides a great 7 letter Scrabble word meaning ‘large deer!’)? A. It’s ...

Making Mozzarella in the Slow Cooker - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Mozzarella in the Slow Cooker

Many thanks to Kathy Love in Tucson, Arizona for sharing her pictures from a demonstration she did showing how to make 30 ...

Bob's Smoked Tuna with Homemade Cream Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bob's Smoked Tuna with Homemade Cream Cheese

Bob Albers of Mandeville, Louisiana sent us this recipe – his 14th contribution to our blog since 2016.* You don’t have t...

Sheila Litchfield in Heath, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sheila Litchfield in Heath, MA

Sheila Litchfield has been raising goats, making cheese and teaching cheese making for over 30 years. Western Massachuse...

Eric Olson's Amazing Mobile Cheese Truck - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Eric Olson's Amazing Mobile Cheese Truck

It’s officially a tradition now – every year, in February, we post an update on Eric Olson’s incredible progress from hom...

Got Cream?  Lucinda's Italian Liqueur - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Got Cream? Lucinda's Italian Liqueur

Lucinda Dee It’s called VOV in Italy where Lucinda Dee of Williamsville, Vermont first tasted it. She fell madly in vov...

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