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The Wild Turns of Small Business: Why Paperwork Saves Your Sanity
The latest column in a series about what it’s like to own a cheese shop explores the value of doing your paperwork When I felt overwhelmed and exhausted a few months ago, I put it all out there on the page—a bit like exorcizing my inner busy gremlins with a flurry of words. I can’t […]
What You Need to Know About Running a Cheese Shop
It’s like the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once I had lofty goals when I pitched this recurring blog post idea to culture. My brick-and-mortar cheese shop had just opened in December and I was brimming with insights and nuggets of knowledge. I felt like I had emerged triumphant after navigating an obstacle course over a […]
A Cheese Shop’s Journey from Farmers’ Market to Storefront
While restaurants across Massachusetts were shuttering their doors and COVID-19’s Omicron variant sent death rates climbing once again, I was doing something that seemed to defy logic: founding a cheese business. On December 28, 2021, as proof-of-vaccination cards became as essential as credit cards for dining out, I filed the paperwork for Life Love Cheese, […]
What You Need to Know Before Opening a Cheese Shop
Eat Cheese. Be Happy: An introduction to a blog series on opening a cheese shop We had spent weeks and an unmentionable amount of money working with an architect before I thought to ask, “Don’t we need a produce sink in the shop’s kitchen?” I made the mistake of assuming the architect knew the health […]
Volcanic Cheese of the Azores
On the hilly, volcanic Azore islands, dairy is an essential part of life. Quejo do Vale, or “Cheese of the Valley,” is definitely one of a kind.
