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Episode 353: Successful Cheesemaking Oct 01, 2018

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Merryl Winstein is the author of Successful Cheesemaking, a book eight years in the making – a true tome to tommes! (Gotta love a cheese pun.) Diane chats with Merryl on this week's show about her experience making her own cheeses and teaching cheesemaking to students over the years. Listeners will get a sneak peek at this extremely detailed collection of cheesemaking recipes and instructions! Check out Merryl's Facebook page for more info: facebook@successfulcheesemaking

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Episode 352: Is anyone really winning with traditional business models in the cheese industry? Sep 24, 2018

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The Cheese Board Collective is a fifty-year-old worker-owned cooperative business located in Berkeley, California. On this week's episode Elena chats with worker-owners and cheese buyers Omri Avraham and Linh Nguyen about the collective's unique operational approach. Some highlights: full-time employees get five and a half weeks vacation each year, everyone makes the same wage and every worker owner has the freedom to pursue creative endeavors within the business and outside of it. Elena sheds tears of joy at the mid-show break!

Follow-up note: here's how to spell Linh's favorite cheese: Petit Cattenoz!

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Episode 351: Your virtual ticket to the 2018 SF Cheese Fest Sep 17, 2018

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Elena takes us out to San Francisco for the 4th annual SF Cheese Fest, hosted by the California Artisan Cheese Guild. Meet the folks behind Achadinha Cheese, Folly Cheese Co., Stuyt Dairy Farmstead Cheese and the cracker folk at Rustic Bakery!

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Episode 350: My Mother's Kitchen. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and the Meaning of Life Sep 10, 2018

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Peter Gethers, author, screenwriter, playwright, book editor, and film and television producer (!!), chats with Diane about his new memoir – what Library Journal calls "a great primer on second acts and living (and dying) well."

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Episode 349: Insider’s Guide to Roth Cheese of Monroe, Wisconsin Aug 13, 2018

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Rob Frie, Director of Operations for Roth Cheese calls in from the heart of America’s Dairyland. Elena and Rob chat about Roth Cheese’s unique cheese selection and their approach to the dairy business. Plus, we learn about Wisconsin’s cheesemaking–and ski destination!–‘Little‘Switzerland’.

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Episode 348: And the winners are... Aug 06, 2018

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This year the American Cheese Society competition received 1,954 entries! On today's show the competition's Best in Show winners–Jasper Hill Farm and Cows Creamery–will join Diane to talk about their winning cheeses and how they got to where they are today.

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Episode 347: Cheese Power to the People Jul 30, 2018

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Amid the inspiring energy at this year's American Cheese Society conference, Elena chats with Gordon Edgar of Rainbow Grocery about the store's long-standing worker-owned business model and how it all works IRL.

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Episode 346: Cheesemaking Powerhouse and Agri-Destination: LaClare Farms of Wisconsin Jul 23, 2018

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Elena chats with Katie Fuhrmann in the studio during a break from Katie's Wisconsin-based cheesemaking. We learn how Katie and her team (many of whom are family members!) have built out their dairy and cheesemaking operations into a full-fledged Agri-tourism destination. Also, Katie reveals the algorithm behind how her family names their cheeses!

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Episode 345: Thirty-five Years of Award-Winning Cheese in cookbook form! Jul 16, 2018

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Kathleen Shannon Finn, past president of the American Cheese Society, Garde et Jure and Maitre Fromager in the Guilde des Fromagers Confrérie de Saint-Uguzon joins Diane to talk about the cookbook she's launching in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the American Cheese Society Conference this month.

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Episode 344: 2018 Cheesemonger Invitational Winner Eric Schack Jul 09, 2018

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The Cheesemonger Invitational is an industry must-see at this point! On today's show Elena chats with 2018 winner Eric Schack about his journey to cheese and his triumph at this year's competition.

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