Why, indeed??? It’s time consuming, the clean-up is horrendous and who cares about their walls anyway! Well, you do and I do, too. In fact, I obsess about the color of my walls to the point where I painted most of my living room 4 times before I settled on the color for it. I used the sample paints you can get at Benjamin Moore
Lynda and Claude Garneau in Ottawa, Canada
What a Team! Claude buys the equipment, sets it up and builds whatever Lynda needs to make her fabulous cheese. (Lucky lady!) Meanwhile, according to Claude, Lynda is an absolute cheese making kook. (We think she’s an absolute MASTER home cheese maker!) Claude and Lynda have been married for 38 years, have 4 grown kids and 5 grandkids. Lynda enjoys gardening when she isn’t making
What’s a Beer and Cheese Walk?
From what I can tell, a “beer & cheese walk” is a sedate version of a “beer & cheese crawl.” You walk around town from one participating pub to another, where they have prepared small plates of cheese and accompaniments paired with craft beers. Sometimes you pay for a ticket to travel from bar to bar, but, at the one we attended last weekend, each
Paul Stovall and His Butterkase
Paul Stovall (67) of Sonora, California is the Frank Sinatra of the cheese making world- doing it his whey! What do we mean? Well, he makes his own cultures and his own molds and his own mats and his own-everything. He’s on a budget, yes, but he’s mainly an extreme “do-it-yourselfer” who doesn’t mind experimenting, even when that means “failing” a good part of the
Dan Crowther, Roller Derby Husband and Cheese Maker
Dan Crowther lives in the small village of Valley Falls, NY (population around 450). It’s about 1/2 way between Albany, NY and Bennington, VT. When he first saw our article about Kizzma, the Roller Derby queen who makes cheese (click here) he thought it was an April’s Fool’s joke. Why? Because he makes cheese and his wife rolls with the Hellions of Troy out of
Controlling Moisture in the “Cave”
The issue is humidity. You can measure it with hygrometers but controlling it is another matter. There are many ways to do it and we have posted several articles about regulating the humidity of your cheeses as they mature.* In this article, Pedro Collins of Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire, UK shares his method. Pedro is a home cheese maker with a great Facebook page- The Little
Bandaged Cheddar by Bleu Mont Dairy
Have you ever tasted a bandaged cheddar? They aren’t available in most grocery stores, so the odds are good, you haven’t. But, believe me when I say you need to do it. Now. (In fact, come to Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, July 30th for the ACS Festival of Cheeses where you will sample dozens of bandaged cheddars.) You might be tasting Bandaged Cheddar by
Miranda Bradley, Roller Derby Cheese Maker
By Cateland White (Note: Cateland is a writer (and a cheese maker) who lives in Las Vegas with her husband and her daughter, Bugsy. For more about her – click here.) I’ve known Miranda Bradley since before she became Miranda Bradley – back when she was my adorable little niece, Miranda White. She always loved animals so when she grew up to become a vet
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