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The 'Cheese by Hand' Podcast

Michael Claypool and Sasha Davies started Cheese By Hand way back in the spring of 2006 with the mission of visiting American cheesemakers large and small and conducting audio interviews with them about "their craft and their lives." Over the course of that summer they took a cross-country trip starting in Vermont, posting a ton of blog entries and some rough audio files about such esteemed American cheesemakers as Rogue Creamery in Oregon and Crave Brothers in Wisconsin. Yesterday they posted the first completed interview, a conversation with Mateo Kehler of Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Jamie Forrest, January 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: cheese, Cheese By Hand, podcasts

Behind the Scenes Judging Cheeses

Yesterday, Jamie Forrest told us about the the winner of the American Cheese Society's Best in Show cheese. Sasha Davies of the blog Cheese by Hand served on the society's judging committee and has an interesting peek into the judges' chambers: Each cheese is marked with an alphanumeric code- you can see them on the stickers in the photo. This prevents the judges from knowing for certain what any individual cheese is, who it was made by, etc. Bob and I would taste each cheese together- discuss- complete our judging sheets separately and then move on to the next. A lot of people have asked me about spitting- I found that it didn’t make much of a difference because you’re...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 8, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Tagged: American Cheese Society, cheese, Cheese by Hand, competitions