Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Lissa Knudsen
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Lissa Knudsen Cheesemonger at the Mouse Hole Cheese ShopPresident of the New Mexico Cheese GuildAlbuquerque, New Mexico With a master’s in public health and a doctorate in health communication underway, Lissa […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Chris Roelli
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Chris Roelli Owner and Master Cheesemaker at Roelli Cheese Haus Shullsburg, Wisconsin Chris Roelli is a fourth- generation cheesemaker. His family legacy began when his great-grandfather emigrated from Switzerland to Wisconsin […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Matt Pattillo
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Matt Pattillo, ACS CCP Events Manager at Antonelli’s CheeseAustin, Texas Matt Pattillo’s segue into the cheese world began unexpectedly after losing his job at the start of the pandemic. Encouraged by […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Scott Robbins & Andrea Siefring-Robbins
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Photo credit: Jon Medina Scott Robbins & Andrea Siefring-Robbins Co-Founders of Urban Stead CheeseCincinnati, Ohio Scott Robbins and Andrea Siefring-Robbins brought their shared love of fermentation and deep dairy-farming roots to […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Austin Banach
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Austin Banach Head Cheesemonger at Guido’s Fresh MarketplaceGreat Barrington, Massachusetts Austin Banach is a cheese scholar, culinary adventurer, and oyster maestro with over 15 years of experience transforming cheese departments and […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Vanessa Tilaka Kalb
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Vanessa Tilaka Kalb, ACS CCP Owner of Agnes Restaurant & CheeseryPasadena, California Born and raised in Los Angeles, Vanessa Tilaka Kalb moved to San Francisco in 2014 to continue her work […]
Culture’s 2025 Hot List: Sarah Simiele
This story is part of culture’s 2025 Hot List. Click here to learn more about the selection process and to see the entire list of recipients. Sarah Simiele, ACS CCP Co-Owner and Cheesemonger at the Curd Nerd and the WedgeSyracuse, New York Sarah Simiele fell for cheese in college at Binghamton University, where she studied cellular and […]
Who’s Going to the 2025 Cheese Olympics? Results from the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters
Two cheesemongers will represent Team USA at Mondial du Fromage, also known as the Cheese Olympics. On Sunday, March 2, 2025, 15 cheese professionals competed in the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters tournament. Cheesemongers Emilia D’Albero (2024 culture Hot Lister) of Philadelphia’s Formaticum, a cheese paper and knife company, and Courtney Johnson of Seattle’s mobile cheese shop […]
culture’s 2025 Annual List of the Best Award-winning Cheeses
At culture, we eat a lot of cheese—funky cheeses, flavored cheeses, ones with bloomy rinds and ones sans rinds, cheeses made of several animal milks, cheeses made from plants, so on. We also attend national and international competitions each year alongside makers and folks in the biz so that we can add award-winning cheeses to […]
This Portuguese Cheese is 2024’s World Cheese Awards Champ
Queijo de Ovelha Amanteigado from Portugal was named the best of the best, beating out Jasper Hill, Mifroma, and more. Queijo de Ovelha Amanteigado from Quinto do Pomar has been voted World Champion Cheese, the best of the best, at the World Cheese Awards in Viseu, Portugal. Photo by Josie Krogh. The jury has spoken: […]
