Author: Kyle Richmond

[Note: The image above is of Martone, a cow-goat cheese from LaClare Farms, one of the more “interesting” looking cheeses at Fromagination.] In this ninth edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, tells us what your cheese choices may tell others…. What does your favorite cheese say about you? My talent for small…

In this eighth edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, examines a very different source for mozzarella cheese…. A few weeks ago, I bought my ticket to France, which means I’ve finally locked in my summer working at Chevrerie de la Baie, the small goat and buffalo farm that I worked on two…

[Note: The image above is of Crottin de Chevre, a goat cheese by Xavier David, soon to be sold at Fromagination.] In this seventh edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, discusses about the work that went into French goat cheese…. This past week I tasted some palhais, a small goat milk round…

In this sixth edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, thinks about Cheddar cheese…. The other night, at dinner, I was talking to some friends about artisanal Wisconsin cheeses. One of them interjected, “Artisanal cheese? From Wisconsin?? What, do you mean cheddar?” They were expressing an attitude that I see frequently in Americans;…

[Note: The image above is of Myron Olson, cheesemaker at Chalet Cheese Cooperative in Monroe, Wisconsin.] In this fifth edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, explains how cheese is made… When I tell people that I’ve worked making cheese, they always ask me, ‘so, how do you make cheese?’ I never quite…

In this fourth edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, explains some differences in how people treat their cheese… “Un petit piece de comte—comme ca,” the customers at La Fermerie would say, gesturing how much cheese they wanted me to cut with their hands. I’d cut just about the right amount, quickly wrap…

In this third edition of The Wandering Cheesemonger, our intrepid blogger, Grace, begins to explain how the wandering started… I got off the train in Quimper, 24 hours in to my trip from Madison, Wisconsin to Treguennec, France, half asleep and half scared, and realized that I had somehow forgotten to write down the address…