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Miraculous Cheese Making

By Guy Hand

If you noticed the post a while back, I spent several months this year trying to make cheese.  Some attempts turned out surprisingly tasty (yogurt, mozzarella, manchego), others . . . not so much (a “quick” cheddar gave meaning to the phrase “chalk and cheese”). What my self-guided apprenticeship taught me was a deep, worshipful... »

Discovering My Inner Cheesemaker

By Guy Hand

A while back it struck me that I didn’t know what cheese was.  I mean, I knew what it looked like and how it tasted — after all, I’ve had my share of grilled cheese sandwiches and molten mountains of gooey nachos — but I didn’t know cheese, how it was made, why a... »

Blessed Are The Cheese Makers

By Guy Hand

Guy Hand visits a small dairy near Gooding with an award winning solution to the modern agricultural imperative to "get big or get out." »