June 2012
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Culture Cocktails: A Cheesemaker's Best Kept...
Jeanne Carpenter at the excellent cheese blog Cheese Underground has an interesting piece about “Adjunct Cultures”, aka ”American cheesemaker’s best-kept secret.” This is particularly interesting to me because on Day 3 of my recent trip up to the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese (VIAC), we had a series of lectures from cultures expert Steven Funk, in which he...
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Help Cheesemakers Affected by the Earthquake in...
Via SeriousEats:
Modena, Italy—one of the most important provinces for Parmigiano Reggiano production—was struck by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake on May 20. The extreme force of the quake caused 300,000 rounds of aging cheese to fall from their warehouse shelves.
Cheesemakers can continue to age undamaged wheels to full maturity (12 to 24 months), at which point they can be certified by law as...
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National Cheese Day Q & A
Got any questions for the cheese maestros at Murray’s Cheese? Head on over to their Tumblr and hit them up:
murrayscheese:
In honor of this hallowed day we are taking questions and giving answers. Ask us anything (about cheese).
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May 2012
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