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French Alpine Fare Meets a Love for Maine Cheese at Alice and Lulu’s


Photography by Nicole Wolf Chef Lex Godin can pinpoint when they fell in love with Maine cheese. It was 2017, and they were working as the executive chef at 45 North, a ski resort restaurant in western Maine, which served Kennebec Cheesery’s Sugarloaf, an aged, Alpine-style goat’s milk cheese. Due to a delivery hiccup, Lex […]

Centerfold: Rockweed


Photographed by Mallory Scyphers No one was more stunned than Allison Lakin when her cheese, Rockweed, won Best of Class at the 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest (WCCC) in March. Lakin operates a one-woman creamery, Lakin’s Gorges Cheese, on the saltwater farm she owns with her husband in Waldoboro, Maine. She introduced Rockweed in 2019, […]

Best of Class winners at the 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest


Among the Best of Class winners is a cheese with a seaweed center made by a one-woman operation in Maine.

No Place Like Home for Maine Cheesemaker


Amy Rowbottom, founder of Crooked Face Creamery, is among a cohort of women business owners who find ways to collaborate and support each other in Maine.

In Queso You Missed It June 24th


Photo Credit @tillamook on Instagram. Well hello there, cheese friends! If you’re like us, you have been shamelessly celebrating the official start to summer with glass upon glass of chilled rosé, a melting wheel of triple-cream brie, and some fresh strawberries too. Keep on riding that sunshine high as you sip your cold brew and […]

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