We first heard from Freda last December when she sent us a lovely note: My cheeses will be for Christmas gifts. Thank you so much for having all the things I need. I started with you a ton of years ago and didn’t make cheese for over 10 years as I had a room mate who didn’t like anything I did. I am on
Ricki’s Amazing Bead Art
Ida, Angie, April, Sarah, Ricki, and Kathy Many folks don’t realize that our Cheese Queen is an artist (see previous article). She has worked with all kinds of media, but in the last few years, she has been making mosaics from stones, glass beads, jewelry, pieces of mirror and mardi gras beads. This winter, she has been holed up in her basement for days at
Ethan Rambacher (17) in Littleton, Massachusetts
In our August, 2014 Moosletter, we offered $25 gift certificates in exchange for essays from young people 18 years and younger. (The offer still stands, by the way and the details are here.) A few months later, Ethan contributed the following essay: Two of my favorite things are cooking and cheese. So, when my family attended a cheese making class at a nearby community
Caciotta with Saffron
Joy Metcalf We are very grateful to Joy Metcalf of Northport, Maine for sharing her recipe with us. It looks absolutely fabulous, but we have not yet had the opportunity to try it. If you are making Caciotta for the first time, we recommend you check out our technical advisor’s detailed recipe on our website (click here). There is lots of additional information about this
Shawn Saindon’s Trip to Italy
We are very happy to share with you a blog post written by Shawn Saindon (Of Song and Cheese). Shawn lives in Portland, Maine and he was one of the entrants in our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest (December, 2013). We did a follow-up interview with him in 2014 (click here). Shawn has always been fascinated with cheese and he has been working hard to become
Karen Hartmann in Battambang, Cambodia
Karen Hartmann fits nicely into our file of fascinating cheese makers! She is both an entrepreneur and a missionary, selling her own yogurt and Tzaziki while she and her husband are doing missionary work in Cambodia. When she lived in the States, she had wanted to make cheese for a long time, but never had the time. When she moved to Cambodia, she found she
Noreen O’Connell in Milford, New Hampshire
Butternut Farm Last December, we had our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest and Noreen O’Connell was one of our entrants: How Cheese Making Has Changed My Life 6 years ago we got our first Alpine does from a friend. Two became 6 and 6 became 14, and, as you know, herds grow exponentially. What are we going to do with all this milk? I bought several
Pictures of Our Veteran’s Appreciation Day, 2014
Ricki Carroll (The Cheese Queen) We owe a great deal of our success as a business to the help of a VA program called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. All around the country, this program provides jobs for veterans and help for businesses like ours. In 2010, we had a rapid growth spurt in our business. This was great, but we didn’t know how long
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