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The Contenders
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Cutlery Class

A lesson in cheese knives

Written by Olga Dominguez

As the cheese buyer for a very busy New York City food retailer, I give a lot of advice to customers about how best to...

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Taking It to the Streets

You might call it a cheese insurgency. But really it's more like a pilgrimage. Every other year, the Slow Food Cheese Festival in Bra, Italy, brings cheese devotees from around the world to its...

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Lessons in Cheesemaking

By Sheila McGrory-Klyza
The sun was not yet up as I drove along the back roads of Addison County, the heart of Vermont dairy farming. I took a wrong turn onto a dirt road and pulled...

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Northwest Passage

The Estrella family builds a life around farmstead cheesemaking
Written by Laurel Miller & Photography by Wil Edwards

View 100 images from Estrella

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Shepherding Tradition

By Toni Lydecker
Several salamis and a hare hang from pegs on the wall, and a merchant is preparing to weigh a wedge of cheese. This is the scene that appears in a 15th-century fresco in the...

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Boston's Bounty

By Claire Leschin-Hoar
NEW ENGLAND IS IN THE MIDST of an artisan cheese renaissance,
and no city is better poised to take advantage of all that handcrafted
goodness than Boston....

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The Nice Man Cometh

By Jeanne Carpenter • photography by Michael Krakora

Combining his environmental ethos with quality cheesemaking and good ol’ neighborliness, Bob Wills of Cedar Grove Cheese redefines...

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On the Rise

In Ecuador, a growing taste for maduro (aged) cheese expands opportunity for farmers and food tourists
By Laurel Miller

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On the Rise .. and on the cutting room floor

We just couldn't pack these bits into the magazine, so we've posted them here for you to read.
By Laurel Miller

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The Great Comeback

A crumbly Welsh commodity transforms into a well-bred wheel
By Janet Fletcher

From the lunch pails of Welsh coal miners centuries ago to a sought-after treasure at today's carriage...

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