Les Ateliers Fromagers It’s been almost 5 years since Sylvain Puccini and Philippe Kotula began offering cheese making workshops in Montreal and Quebec City. They rent commercial kitchens for their classes and it has been a very successful endeavor for them. They are both from the South of France. Philippe, who teaches the workshops, is also a consultant for cheese businesses, having made cheese professionally
Cheese Making Retreat in Hawaii / February, 2020
Cheesemaking in Paradise Retreat! Leave it to our friend Kate Johnson in Colorado* to come up with this fun idea! Kate is a constant source of information and inspiration for cheese makers and now she’s bringing it all to Hawaii this winter for a combination vacation/cheese making retreat, limited to only 8 lucky participants. From 4-H Dairy Goats to Hawaiian Cheesemaking Retreat: Kate Johnson started
Making Cheese in Nairobi
A while back, one of our readers asked us to connect her with Sandra Daniels, a missionary in Kenya (article in 2011). This reader was planning to teach cheese making in the slums of Nairobi to South Sudanese refugees. Specifically, she was hoping to teach the people to make Indian paneer and Middle Eastern mudaffara (braided cheese which is based on mozzarella). She would be
Red Gable Cheese Workshops
Red Gable Cheese Workshops is located in Sparta, Tennessee-a small community located on the scenic Upper Cumberland plateau approximately an hour and a half from Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga Tennessee. On her 33 acre farm, Karen teaches artisan cheese making utilizing both goat and cow’s milk along with raising a dairy goat herd. I had to interview Karen by e-mail because Tennessee is a little
New Online Cheese Making Course!
Our friend, Kate Johnson is a bundle of energy! She raises goats at her Briar Gate Farm and she teaches cheese making classes at her school, The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado. She also co-leads a 4-H club and serves as Superintendent of Utility Goats for the Boulder County Fair. (In 2014, she sent us her recipe for Chocolate Ricotta Mousse. Then, recently, we
Certifying Home Cheese Makers!
We first interviewed Kate Johnson, the founder of The Art of Cheese , a school for cheese making, in 2014 when she sent us her recipe for Chocolate Ricotta Mousse. Since that time, she has developed a unique program for the attendees of her classes in Longmont, Colorado. It’s called an “in-house certification” with levels achieved and certificates awarded. It is incredibly inspirational! As her
Rose Boero in Central Wisconsin
Rose with her daughter, Margaret Becoming a licensed cheese maker in Wisconsin is a very big deal! Rose Boero, age 60, is a newly licensed cheese maker. It’s been a long journey for her. Getting licensed in Wisconsin involves taking courses, passing an exam and, with the option she chose, completing over 240 hours of apprenticeship. That’s especially hard when you decide to do it
Jim’s Workshop #2 with Simona Carini
She’s still learning “after all these years.” You know a cheese maker is serious when she flies from her home in northern California to our neck of the woods, Massachusetts, twice to attend one of Jim Wallace’s advanced workshops. When she attended her first workshop in May, 2011, on French Cheese Making she made Reblochon, Brie and Tomme de Savoie. At the second workshop