Cutting the Curd

Felice Thorpe, national sales director and owner of Felice Foods, returns for another conversation about the business of selling cheese. This time we're talking about forecasting. What is it? Why do it? Who should be doing it? And when?

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Today on CTC we chat with Cara Condon to learn more about her win at this year's CMI and life as a cheesemonger at Beautiful Rind in Chicago.

Photo Courtesy of Kathryn M Sheldon @kathrynmichael.

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On today's episode, we discuss the ins and outs of queer life as a farmer. Plus, goat's milk cheese making in New York state, is it difficult and what are some programs cheesemakers can use to start up their creameries??

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The story of Buf Creamery stretches across continents, generations of farming, and centuries of cheesemaking traditions. Alejandro Gomez Torres joins Cutting the Curd for a conversation about the majestic and sometimes fickle water buffalo, and making buffalo milk cheese in Colombia.

Photo Courtesy of Buf Creamery.

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On today's episode, we talk with Peter Dixon and Rachel Fritz-Schaal of Parish Hill Creamery & Dairy Foods Consulting about their specific way of cheesemaking. Committed to traditional cheesemaking, we look at the details and motivation behind their work. Plus, we follow how they are encouraging small-scale cheesemakers to make the most of the best milk possible.

Photo Courtesy of Parish Hill.

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In the first of two episodes focusing on water buffalo and buffalo milk, we meet Sarah Roland of Bayou Sarah Farms in Louisiana. A few years ago, Sarah was working on a farm in Northern California when she tried buffalo milk gelato for the first time. Flash forward to the present day, and Sara owns and operates Bayou Sarah Farms, manages a herd of water buffalo, and is working towards creating her own gelato, while also practicing sustainable farming and learning about natural cheesemaking.

Photo Courtesy Bayou Sarah Farms.

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Special Show: We check in with cheesemakers and cheese professionals from Ukraine.

We hear from Olha Ternytska, cheesemaker and restaurant fromager, Oksana Chernova, cheese judge and training expert, as well as cheesemakers Andriy Kulyk and Oleksander Ukrainets also known as 'The Milk Master at Lel’. They share their plans, worries, and love for Ukrainian cheese.

“Cheesemakers are resilient, but so many in Ukraine face an uncertain future.” Carlos Yescas would like to dedicate this show to the victims of war.

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We check back with David Asher from The Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking on his journey to promote natural cheesemaking around the world.

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We talk to Grace Gershuny, organic farmer, writer, and thinker, about the concepts of Social Ecology and how the dairy and cheese industry can do more to address climate change. She teaches for the Institute for Social Ecology and is based in Vermont.

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Wheyward Spirit connects the dots from farm to flask, upcycling whey and transforming it into an 80 proof spirit in a category of its own. This creates new challenges that only an entrepreneur-slash-dairy scientist can tackle, transforming the way we look at existing supply chains, food systems, marketing, and disrupting the way we think about categories in the marketplace.

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