Kategori: Milk And Diary

Editor’s note: Other than a story on Sweet Grass Dairy we have not focused very much on cheese or cheesemakers in the American South. Fortunately we have cheesemonger, journalist and Southern born and raised contributor David Phillips shine a light on the region. In his first installment, he shared an

High in the alps of Vaud, Switzerland, giant cows graze serenely in the warm sun. For most of the year the milk they produce will be turned into the famous Le Gruyère d’Alpage AOP. As autumn approaches the characteristics of their milk change, making it unsuitable for giant wheels

The Tarot, like the zodiac, is built around cycles. In each suit within the Tarot, when you come to the final card, it means you have completed a journey, and arrived in a place or as a person that represents that suit’s ideal, whether in logic, relationships, material resources, or

“Hey there Cheesestorians! I’m Julia and welcome to Cheese History, a channel about the origins, history, and impact of cheese,” so begins most of the videos on the Cheese History channel. Since early 2021, Julia van den

Call it a cheesy love story.

Alpinage Artisan Cheese started out kind of like the Journey song, “Don’t Stop Believin’.”  

Except Orphee Paillotin wasn’t from South Detroit, he was from Paris, and Paula Heimerl, though from a small town in Wisconsin, wasn’t living in a lonely world – she was

Monica and Todd Brown, owners of Ridgefield, Connecticut’s 109 Cheese & Wine, were drawn to cheese by their passion for pairing the wines at their boutique wine shop with food. They opened 109 Cheese in 2009, inspired by the closure of a local gourmet food store. “Along with a

There are two kinds of fake cheeses in the world. One is the kind that is unashamedly fake, due to regulations not being universal. The prime example is parmesan cheese made outside the European Union, where countries do not necessarily recognize parmesan’s Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). In the USA,

Sarasota is an unlikely spot for a cheese shop, but Louise Kennedy Converse, owner of Artisan Cheese Company, is up to the challenge.

“Being in Florida, access is our biggest obstacle,” she explains.  The state has few cheesemakers and obtaining high-quality cheese from

Buckle up. If you read the first part of this story, you know the pleasure I found in driving a Cheese Ferrari at Oio in Luxembourg after a decade of teaching cheese classes and running a cheese-centric social media account under the name of Madame Fromage. Today we

Next week, it’s either Valentine’s Day, the newish but welcome, Galentine’s Day or just another week to explore cheese. All good reasons to gift someone or yourself with a cheese basket, box, recipe or experience. Thankfully, there are plenty of great options, if you want to order, take a class