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A slice of advice for would-be cheese retailers from a veteran monger

Latin American Cheese: Mexico


From the aged Cotija, to the freshly made Oaxaca, and the rare Bola de Ocosingo, each Mexican cheese has a unique story behind it

Josey Pukrop, a junior majoring in Animal Science, stirs cheese into curds in the Dairy Pilot Plant October 8, 2013.

University Cheese


Want some university cheese? College students across the United States are producing top-notch wheels via innovative cheesemaking programs

Eric Meredith of Wegmans checks cheeses that are aging in the store's new affinage facility

Affinage At Wegmans Grocery Store


With the opening of its new central aging facility, Wegmans Food Markets shows it’s serious about affinage and cheese

Brian Civitello stands outsides of one of his cheesemaking pods for Mystic Cheese

Two Cheeses in a Pod


Mystic Cheese, a Connecticut company, has pioneered a new approach to farmstead cheesemaking: the cheese pod

Cow splotched milk delivery truck for Calder Brother's Farm Dairy

The Milkman (and Woman) Cometh Back


Fueled by nostalgia and an interest in sustainability, milk delivery regains popularity and milkmen are on the rise

The historic Plymouth Cheese factory in black and white

Calvin Coolidge and Plymouth Cheese


Nineteenth-century cheesemaking traditions thrive at the 30th president’s Vermont Homestead, the home of the historic Plymouth Cheese factory

Pineland Farms Helping Hands


The philanthropic Pineland Farms creamery in Maine does more than just craft cheese

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