Cutting the Curd

This week on Cutting the Curd lean more about cheese aging, as Anne is joined by Michael Anderson . Michael is an expert in the field of affinage and the cave manager at Murray’s Cheese. Tune in and learn why not all cheese need to age a long time, and how you can better preserve the flavor and lifespan of cheese in your refrigerator! This episode was sponsored by 360 Cookware. Learn more about th...

Anne brings State of Cheese series to the great state of Illinois with special guests Leslie Cooperband of Prairie Fruits Farm and Martin Johnson of The Joy of Cheese. Together, they discuss how the super fertile land that mots people make use of for corn and soy is also ideal for raising dairy animals and producing added value dairy products. Tune in to learn more about farmstead creameries in Il...

This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby sits us down to teach us more about the fabric of all dairy: milk. Anne traces the roots of human production of milk from various mammals, starting with goats and sheep. Tune in and learn about everything from seasonal breeding to the properties of ruminants. What took us so long to start milking cows? Find out on Cutting the Curd! This episode was spons...

On the first Cutting the Curd of 2011 – Anne Saxelby resumes her state of the cheese series with the state of Ohio. She is joined by Abbe Turner of Lucky Penny Farm and Creamery who discusses everything from finding farm equipment on eBay to sheep’s milk. Tune in and find out why distributors can be hard to work with at times and why Ohio was rated the 2nd best local food city in America. This epi...

This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne is joined by a special panel of friends and colleagues to discuss the ongoing developments and controversy surrounding raw milk in cheese production. Tia Keenan of The Modern, Daphne Zepos of Essex Cheese Company and Matteo Kehler of Jasper Hill all share their thoughts on FDA crackdowns on small producers, European traditions, and cultural barriers that need to...

This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne is joined by cheesemonger Diana Pitett and author Kara Newman on a monastic themed episode. The girls discuss the history surrounding cheese, spirits and monasteries. Tune in to learn more about The St Benedict Rule, feeding Chartreuse to cows, and how certain cheeses were washed with spirits. This episode was brought to you by The Barterhouse. For more informat...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne Saxelby takes the State of Cheese series down to The Big Easy. Learn about dairy culture in Louisana and New Orleans, or the lack thereof. Anne is joined by Richard Sutton of St. James Cheese Shop who explains how his journey to England brought him and his wife back to New Orleans, and what it was like for them starting the first artisanal cheese shop in the area...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her State of Cheese series with a look at Utah and the state’s growing interest in sustainable food. Steven Rosenberg of Liberty Heights Fresh calls from Utah to talk about how eating some unsavory cafeteria food began him on a quest to finding the freshest and most delicious food available and ended in the form of Liberty Heights Fresh, one of the best...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne spoke to Alyce Birchenough of Sweet Home Farm in Alabama as part of her continuing State of Cheese Series. Alyce talked about how, using local sourcing and value added sales techniques, she proved some other local farmers wrong when they said she couldn’t make a living off her modest 40 acres. Tune in to find out how cheese is doing in the great state of Alabama....

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her State of Cheese series with New Hampshire. Doug Erb of Landaff creamery calls in to talk about his career in the cheese business. Tune in to hear how Doug is working with Jasper Hill Creamery to get his product distributed, and about Doug’s work with the Vermont Institute of Artisan Cheese. This episode was sponsored by Edwards of Surry Virginia. Se...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne speaks to Shanna Pacifico of Back 40 to share terrifying cheese stories: the ghoulish, the ghastly, and the gross. Turn green as you hear the tale of the 117 year old Eastern European cheese (quite literally an heirloom), cringe at the story of the creepy crawly cheese mites, and wince at the thought of cheese-filled luggage sitting on hot airport tarmacs for a w...

State #7: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues the saga that is The State of Cheese with Michigan: the next chapter. Aubrey Thomason of Zingerman’s Creamery in Ann Arbor calls in to explain just how much of cheesemaking and mongering is packaging or cleaning or wrapping or straight up cheese creation. Learn about their lactic style fresh cheese, why the value added dairy industry can be so...

State #6: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne’s State of Cheese special continues with Kentucky: the bluegrass state, and home of Kenny Mattingly of Kenny’s Country Cheese. Learn how a trip to meet with international cheesemakers impressed Kenny enough to turn his dairy farm into an artisanal cheesemaking operation that would eventually reach up to 30 varieties. Kenny speaks on Kentucky’s positive...

State #5: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her State of Cheese series with New York State. Dean Sparks from Empire Organics joins Anne on air to talk about how to keep the quality of dairy high and the wages fair for everyone from the farmer to the distributor. Speaking on everything from simple eggs to value added dairy products, Dean stresses the importance of making sure everyone’s...

State #4: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her State of Cheese series with Connecticut. With her Ma and Grandma sitting in, Anne speaks to Mark Gellman of Cato Corner Farms in Colchester CN. Tune in to find out how Mark went from a dozen cows to over 40 in his career as a dairy farmer, and about the depth of flavor that raw milk adds to cheese. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranc...

State #3: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her State of Cheese series with Virginia and Helen Feete of Meadow Creek Dairy. Feete sells delicious Grayson, Appalachian and other wholesale cheeses from the mineral-rich pastures of the mountains in southwest Virginia. Tune in to hear about Helen’s Jersey herd, raw milk cheeses, and why Virginia makes delicious cheese. This episode was spon...

State #2: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues her state-by-state breakdown of cheese in the US with a look at Georgia cheese and Sweet Grass Dairy. Georgia is not the most “traditional” place to make cheese, but as we learn from the folks at Sweet Grass its a great place to raise happy goats, fight for your right to age cheese appropriately, and generally create positive cheese culture. T...

State #1: This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne starts her “State of Cheese” series: a 50 part show series highlighting each state in the US and it’s cheese culture. She begins with California, and is joined by guest Peggy Smith of Cowgirl Creamery. Peggy tells us how to make cottage cheese, and tells the story of the Straus Family Creamery, the first organic dairy west of the Mississippi. This epis...

Patricia Michelson, owner of the famous La Fromagerie in London, and author of Cheese: The World’s Best Artisan Cheeses. Patricia compares her humble beginings “in a shed” in her garden to HRN’s current shed-like status, and describes the defining moment when she fell in love with cheese during a skiing trip (she literally tripped while skiing) in the French Alps. Some delicious farmstead cheese w...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne and special guest host Samia Khan spoke to Andy Hatch of Uplands Cheese, a seasonal grass-based dairy farm. Uplands is unique in a number of ways: it follows the “Alpine pattern” of milking, and its a place where cows harvest their own feed, spread their own manure, and give the farmer a bit of a break in the hard labor department. They’ve even crossbred nine dif...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne spoke with Kate Arding. Kate runs Culture Magazine, one of the only cheese-exclusive monthly magazines in the world, and discusses how she went from the world of cheese mongering to the high-stress world of publishing, and her process for creating an issue of Culture. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed beef. See Privacy Policy...

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne spoke to Sasha Davies to speak about the American Cheese Society Conference, aka Cheesetopia. Sasha spoke about how the conference helped small business owners tackle problems–liability insurance, succession planning–that they might never be able to fix on their own. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

Robert LaValva stopped by for a chat. Anne asked Robert about the days of the Agora, when markets and government shared the same hall, and how his experience as an architect has helped him build the New Amsterdam Market. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne kicked it with Adam Moskowitz, cheese poet and president of Larkin. Adam described the upcoming Larkin Cheesemonger Invitational, and gave us the scoop on the games included therein (like the Dapper Wrapper). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week on Cutting the Curd Anne speaks to Max McCalman, the author of “Mastering Cheese: Lessons for Connoisseurship from a Maître Fromager”. Max drops his cheese expertise on the listening audience, and describes how he does the same thing for cheese See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .