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When Milkmaids Meet: The Power of Women-Only Spaces

When Milkmaids Meet: The Power of Wom...

The hunger to connect with other women is strong. So strong that it pulled 40 women from around the world to a small cattle farm in Accord, New York on a sunny Saturday in May to attend the first annual Meeting of the Milkmaids.

Josie Krogh |

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Breeding Better Cheese

Breeding Better Cheese

Enterprising dairies blend the latest tech and age-old practices to raise healthier animals, strengthen farms, and produce top-quality milk

Josie Krogh | farm-animal
Cheese Styles: Traditional Swiss

Cheese Styles: Traditional Swiss

In Switzerland, traditional cheesemaking serves many functions. Without the low-intensity, seasonal cow grazing that helps to regenerate and maintain them, these grasslands—hotspots of biodiversity— would begin to disappear.

Molly McDonough | cheese-iq
Cheese Styles: Blue

Cheese Styles: Blue

Centuries ago, blue cheeses were probably all mistakes. Modern cheesemakers prefer consistency and control, so they inoculate the milk or curds with the mold of their choosing.

Alli Beard | cheese-iq
Cheese Styles: Pecorino

Cheese Styles: Pecorino

As a class, pecorinos are relatively simple cheeses to make. Many recipes have changed little since Roman times.

Alli Beard | cheese-iq

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