Episode 11 - Setting Up Cheese in the Dark: Hook's Cheese

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 Saturday morning from April to November, about 170 stands pop up on the capital square in Madison, Wisconsin. All of the items for sale are grown, raised, and produced by the person behind each table. Tony told me he usually arrives by 4:45 a.m., so I told him I’d see him there. I’m not entirely sure he believed me, so as he navigated the orange construction barrels on Pinckney Street in his Chevy Tahoe and trailer at 4:40 am, he shook his head in disbelief as I greeted him at the curb. “Well, you told me you’d be here early, but I didn’t think you meant this early,” he said. As I helped him unload the trailer in the pitch dark under the light of a street lamp, it occurred to me how very quiet a city can be before dawn. Hell, even the swarms of squirrels that usually dot the capital grounds looking for leftovers weren’t even up yet. And to think, in just a couple of hours, the market would be so crowded that customers three-deep would be vying to buy cheddar, blue and American original cheeses from the Hook’s Cheese team.

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Episode 6 - Making Cheese in Copper Kettles

Episode 6 - Making Cheese in Copper Kettles

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Episode 5 - Candied Cheddar at Roelli Cheese

Episode 5 - Candied Cheddar at Roelli Cheese

Cheddar cheese - Wisconsin’s claim to fame. Nearly half of all cheese plants in America’s Dairyland produce cheddar, whether it’s in huge, 640-pound commodity blocks destined to be cut up and sold in ...

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Episode 4 - Why You Need to Move to Wisconsin — Fresh, Squeaky Cheese Curds

Episode 4 - Why You Need to Move to Wisconsin — Fresh, Squeaky Cheese Curds

Friday fish fries, Jell-O salads, beer and brats: these are all foods that scream Wisconsin. But is there anything that defines America’s Dairyland better than a squeaky, fresh cheese curd? Travel the...

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Episode 3 - Visit the dairies of Red Barn Family Farms with Dr. Terry Homan

Episode 3 - Visit the dairies of Red Barn Family Farms with Dr. Terry Homan

Today we visit with two Wisconsin dairy farmers, both milking herds of just 40 cows and each with dreams of passing them on to the next generation. We learn why they’ve joined forces with a company ca...

10 Juli 201722min

Episode 2 - Tour the underground Caves of Faribault with Jeff Jirik

Episode 2 - Tour the underground Caves of Faribault with Jeff Jirik

We explore natural sandstone cheese aging caves with cheesemaker Jeff Jirik, the man who brought a Minnesota blue cheese factory back from the brink in 2001, after the previous owner closed and abando...

10 Juli 201719min

Episode 1 - Meet Sartori Master Cheesemaker Mike Matucheski's future Replacement

Episode 1 - Meet Sartori Master Cheesemaker Mike Matucheski's future Replacement

What happens when a master cheesemaker retires? We find out by talking to Sartori’s Master Cheesemaker (and current U.S. Champion) Mike Matucheski. Mike's training his future replacement, and in a sta...

10 Juli 201723min

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