Editor-In-Cheese…

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Editor-In-Cheese…

Hello Cheese Enthusiasts!

A very special edition this week to help celebrate one very special person…My “Editor-In-Cheese”, also known as my Mom.

Every week I kick around some ideas to write about, take my final photos by Friday, and then finally finish up writing the story over the weekend. Most Sunday evenings you can find me on the phone with my Mom late into the night, so that she can help me edit my latest post. She was an English major in college, but that is not why I ask her…I enjoy letting her be the first person to read my post, as well as sharing the backstory of the post with her.

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1920 – A 100 year look back at Cheesemaking in America

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1920 – A 100 year look back at Cheesemaking in America

Hello Cheese Enthusiasts!

Besides my love for cheese, I also love family history…As a result, I have access to a lot of old newspaper databases and decided recently to take a look back 100 years to 1920. I remembered some of the highlights from this era from my history lessons…World War I had just ended and the nations were learning to work together again; women gained the right to vote, prohibition has stopped all of the legal sales of alcohol, the population was a third of what it is today, and Jazz music was all the rage…But what about the world of cheese?? I decided to take a look…The following article is a shared here in its entirety for your reading pleasure. It is from Page 11 of The Sacramento Bee Newspaper, 17 August 1920:

HOLES IN SWISS CHEESE INDICATIVE OF ITS QUALITY

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Protecting Europe’s Culinary Heritage

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Protecting Europe’s Culinary Heritage

Hello fellow traveler!

If you have read my blog postings from the beginning, you will have heard me talk about PDO Cheeses, that is to say, cheeses that have been awarded the “Protected Designation of Origin” status. Since this acclaimed designation is so important, and yet so hard to achieve, I thought I should dedicate this week’s post to this subject, as I have researched this subject in great depth and in 2015 wrote a book on the subject.

To fully understand the PDO story,…..

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Cheese Influencers and Inspiration…

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Cheese Influencers and Inspiration…

Hello fellow traveler! 

Inspiration for writing about my life in the cheese industry can come from many places, but today, it simply came from looking over my vast collection of cheese books that I amassed over the last 25+ years. Many of these were written by authors that I am happy call my part of my ‘cheese friends and family’ network. There are a few that I have never got a chance to meet, yet they still have a lasting impact on me, as well as the cheese industry. Pierre Androuet wrote an amazing book back in 1971, which started as a letter to his daughter. His book, Guide du Fromage helps the reader learn about the cheeses and the peak season to purchase them at.

One of the most influential books I own is

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