Cheese is a relatively simple food. It’s made with milk, enzymes – these are proteins that can chop up other proteins – bacterial cultures and salt. Lots of complex chemistry goes into the ...

Joseph Gallo Farms, a third-generation cheese company based in Atwater, California, is celebrating 80 years in business!

Master cheesemaker, Pam Hodgson, hard at work at Sartori Cheese in Plymouth, Wis. Cheese. We love it here in Wisconsin, and the numbers back this fact up. If Wisconsin was a country, we would rank ...

It’s said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. In Mother Noëlla Marcellino’s case, Step One was milking a cow named Sheba. “I never thought I’d milk a cow,” said the Benedictine ...

This series highlights interesting, unique, and innovative courses open to all undergraduates at Drexel University. "Cheesemaking" (Food Science 580) is a special topics course that, as you might ...

Rhonda Gothberg had never milked an animal when she bought her first goat 17 years ago. At the time, Gothberg was a nurse in her late 40s, living on a farm in the Skagit Valley that she and her ...

Our day starts in the dark hours of the morning when we fetch the day’s first milking from the lovely lactating ruminants of Kerith Brook Farm. We arrive in time for the mixed herd of Jersey, Ayrshire ...

With her handsome new book, "Artisan Cheesemaking at Home" (Ten Speed Press), Mary Karlin has raised the stakes for urban homesteaders. You thought your backyard honey entitled you to bragging rights.

Listeria can pose special challenges for artisan cheesemakers. Many make their cheese right on the farm, where the bad bacteria are right outside the cheese room door. And small producers often lack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Storing cheese wheels to let them age intensifies the flavor. AP Photo/Antonio Calanni Cheese is a relatively simple food. It’s ...