Ruminations: the Great Cheese Marathon
One cheesemonger explains her experience earning the title of Certified Cheese Professional and the endurance it takes to get from start to finish
Ruminations: Bra Cheese Festival
A young cheese lover confronts fear and joy while confronting the possibility of a career in cheese at the Slow Food Cheese Festival
Ruminations: Matt Rubiner’s Fan Club
One mom observes her son’s cheese devotion and how it led him to his hero: Cheesemonger Matt Rubiner
Ruminations: Confessions of a New Milkmaid
A farm novice finds trouble and triumph as a student milkmaid in the milking parlor of Sprout Creek Farm
Ruminations: Born to be Wild (About Cheese)
A teenager on his way to college recounts his early years of cheese discovery and considers what it means to be born to be wild… about cheese
Ruminations: The World’s Largest Cheese
A cheesemonger recalls his pilgrimage to see the World’s Largest Cheese, a cheddar known as The Golden Giant
Ruminations: Come Together… with Cheese Clubs
One writer contemplates cheese clubs and the power of cheese as a social adhesive throughout history
Ruminations: Tales of Good Cheese Gone Bad
The dark underbelly of the cheese world is exposed in these true tales of cheese crime
Ruminations: China’s Cheese Vacancy
“Made in China” applies to everything but fine cheese… what’s the explanation for this vacancy in the field of Chinese cheese?
Ruminations: The Origin of Cheese
While today the origin of cheese as food is still disputed, in the middle ages (and earlier) some believed that cheese was the stuff of earthly creation
