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Presentation Party Night on Artisan Cheese
At the most recent Presentation Party Night at the Bathaus in Brooklyn, I was able to share in 10 minutes some of the key musings on artisan cheese in relation to American identity. It was a charged 10 minutes, to be sure, as words such as “artisan” and “industrial” or completely loaded with multiple interpretations and … Continue reading
Flocculation and Cheese Making at the Cellars at Jasper Hill
Here’s a blast from the past. In 2011, when I visited the Cellars at Jasper Hill in Greensboro, Vermont, I was lucky enough to try about ten sample batches of their now very popular cheese, Harbison, a soft, bloomy rind style, wrapped in local spruce bark. I can still remember to this day the … Continue reading
Feta Cheese Making for the Holidays, Brooklyn Style
A few days ago, I had a friend offer to commission me to make a holiday cheese she could bring to back to her homeland. This inspired me. Forget about being commissioned, I would give everyone a piece of one of my favorite past times for the holidays: cheese making! I had this realization … Continue reading
Cheese in the City 