June 2012
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Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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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...
Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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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...
Jun 8th
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Jun 7th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
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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).
Jun 4th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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May 2012
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May 31st
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May 30th
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