National yum: This video of 8 recipes with cheese in them was posted on National Cheese Day – June 4th. (click here) Renewable energy source: Whey from Wenslydale is being converted to biogas and it will soon be heating homes in England. (click here) Easy cheesy recipe of the month: “Fried Cheese With Eggs” from the NY Times. (click here) Controversy: Do you think vegan
Gabriella Steria, a Mennonite, was raised on a farm in upstate New York. She moved to Western Massachusetts 20 years ago when she was asked to teach at a Russian Christian school in Westfield. After a few years of working there, she and another teacher at the school (Janice Weaver) decided to buy the property where Gabriella now lives, so they wouldn’t have to pay
Karen Kushner of Red Gable Cheese Workshops in Tennessee sent us this note recently: “Since I think you’re always looking for interesting articles, I wanted to put a bug in your ear about one of my students from last year. Suzanne Bennett of Holy Goat Creamery in Manhattan, KS came in last year for a private class. She already had an existing creamery and was
I am 66 years old, married, have three children and five granddaughters, all of them heavy and knowledgeable cheese consumers. I am a computer specialist by profession, worked 11 years for IBM as a Systems engineer and left to start my own business. I retired 6 years ago, so I have plenty of time to maintain some hobbies besides the cheese – surfing and paddling
Shelley Whitehead is a home cheese maker from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. This past spring she took an exciting cheese trip and was kind enough to share her experience with us: A few years ago, I saw the Spanish National Cheese Festival in Trujillo, Spain referenced in your newsletter. I just got home from attending! The festival was fabulous with 40 to 50 booths displaying a
We have no idea what this is! (Well, we didn’t until the update at the end…) According to the CEO of Naturo All Natural Technologies, Jeff Hastings, he has invented a new way of pasteurizing milk without heating it. He says it’s the biggest breakthrough in the dairy industry since pasteurization was first invented in 1864. This process not only clears the milk of “bad”
A short video about making cheese in Slovenia: A challenge for you: There are still 4 more days (until May 17th) to earn a free meal and a t-shirt at Wheel in Pottsville, PA by eating a grilled cheese sandwich with 1 pound(!) of cheese on it + a bowl of tomato soup. (click here) Just for fun: If you have 5 minutes, episodes of The
Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel created this box for drying cheese and was kind enough to send us the directions. We will be interviewing Yoel for the June 1st Moos-Letter (Spotlight section), but we wanted to get this out to you ASAP. Yoel has told us that he will be happy to answer any questions for you (or entertain any new ideas) in the
