Episode 14: Cheese Caves in Sotres de Cabrales, Spain
High up in the Picos de Europa mountains in the autonomous community of Asturias, lies the tiny parish of Sotres de Cabrales, Spain. The nearest school or grocery store is 45 minutes away, and the num...
4 Okt 201740min
Episode 13: Starting from Scratch: Door Artisan Cheese Company
Imagine building a brand new artisan cheese factory. You’ve made your very first batch of cheese, and just days later, opened a shiny new retail store. It’s the beginning of a busy tourist season in D...
19 Sep 201731min
Episode 12 - 50 Years Over the Vat: Master Cheesemaker Sid Cook
n just a couple of months, Sid Cook, owner of Carr Valley Cheese in Wisconsin, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of earning his Wisconsin cheesemaker’s license. You might think that because he’s spe...
13 Sep 201724min
Episode 11 - Setting Up Cheese in the Dark: Hook's Cheese
A few weeks ago, I called cheesemaker Tony Hook in Mineral Point with the idea of doing a story on what it was like to sell cheese at the largest producer-only farmer’s market in the nation. Every Sat...
6 Sep 201728min
Episode 10 - Seasonal Milk, Seasonal Cheese at Uplands
Located on scenic Highway 23 between Dodgeville and Spring Green, Wisconsin, Uplands Cheese is one of the best known farmstead cheese plants in the nation. Its flagship cheese, Pleasant Ridge Reserve,...
30 Aug 201733min
Episode 9 - Wisconsin Women Cheesemakers
Of 1,200 licensed cheesemakers in Wisconsin, less than 60 are women. Three of them: Katie Fuhrmann at LaClare Farms, Anna Landmark of Landmark Creamery and Diana Murphy at Dreamfarm (pictured above fr...
23 Aug 201729min
Episode 8 - Sold! Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Auction
Summer in Wisconsin means only one thing to many folks: fair season. There are county fairs, there are local fairs and then there’s the grand daddy of them all: the Wisconsin State Fair, an 11-day ext...
16 Aug 201721min
Episode 7 - The Future of North Hendren Cooperative Dairy
This week, I visited small town Wisconsin and talked with two dairy farm families, both milking small herds of just 60 cows, and who for decades, have shipped their milk to the local cheese factory: N...
9 Aug 201726min
