Many congratulations to Daphne Zepos and Kiri Fisher for having recently acquired the Cheese School of San Francisco.

Daphne, who has been passionately involved in the cheese scene since the mid-nineties and is also co-owner of Essex Street Cheese, http://essexcheese.com  a company that imports carefully matured Comte, Parmigiano Reggiano and Gouda into the United States is beyond delighted.  "We plan to expand the number of classes and add more professional programs, but also vary the classes to include more cooking, more beer and more events.  I hope it becomes a West Coast Meeting Center for the Cheese Obsessed" she said after the public announcement was made on Tuesday.

A big development here at culture is our new collaboration with the best-selling “Dummies” book series. Culture co-founder Lassa Skinner and I are co-authoring “Cheese for Dummies,” which, in addition to curtailing our blog posts, has been quite the learning experience thus far.