Wandering Cheesemonger

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…

The Wandering Cheesemonger is our friend Grace, who will go to Europe this summer to learn more about cheese, and describe her adventures for Fromagination’s Blog!  Here is Grace’s second post: In 2012, I applied for a job at Fromagination, an innovative local cheese store in downtown Madison, Wisconsin that focuses on creating a relationship…

The Wandering Cheesemonger – sometime Fromagination employee Grace Mooney – will be blogging for Fromagination weekly throughout 2015.  She begins her blog this week with a story about her introduction to a seminal figure in local cheese-making: It all started with a ghost. Or was it a goat? In 1982, Anne Topham and Judy Borree,…