Mongolian Milk: Nomadic Cheesemaking in Mongolia
Climate and cultural change are wreaking havoc on dairy traditions in Mongolia, but cheesemakers are finding hope together.
Interview with A Mongolian Cheesemaker
To find out about Mongolia’s cheese scene, culture caught up with Tumurkhuyag Urtnasan, one of the country’s first artisan makers to craft European-style cheeses. Tumurkhuyag Urtnasan didn’t always make cheese. In 1992, right after the fall of communism in Mongolia, he was a vice governor in the Altanbulag district, a very sparsely populated region in […]
