Tiffany Kenney of Locavore Roar joins Anne Saxelby to talk about the Wisconsin Food Festival on this week's edition of Cutting the Curd. Hear how the event aims to mimic the idea of "slow food" by encouraging attendees to meet with cheesemakers and other producers. Learn about the contemporary Wisconsin...

Heather Paxson views cheese through an anthropological lens in her book, The Life of Cheese. On this week's Cutting the Curd Book Review, Diane Stemple invites Heather into the studio to discuss cheese- from its creation to its consumption. Find out why Heather first became fascinated with American artisan cheese...

Peter Kindel shares his cheese journey on today's Cutting the Curd with Diane Stemple. Hear how Peter got his start in the cheese world, and how his travels in France and England changed his perspective on cheesemaking entirely. Peter talks about his experiences working with Neal's Yard Dairy and helping...

Diane Stemple debuts as guest host on this week's episode of Cutting the Curd! Diane is speaking with Aaron Foster, the Head Buyer for Murray's Cheese about the affect of Hurricane Sandy on the New York City cheese business. Tune into hear Diane and Aaron recount the events of the...

On this week's Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby and Sophie Slesinger are traveling via the airwaves to Oregon! That's right, this week's episode is all about the state of cheese in Oregon. The Oregonian that Anne and Sophie are talking to is Sasha Davies, cheesemonger and author of The Guide...

This week is Cutting the Curd's 100th episode! Congratulations to Anne Saxelby, Sophie Slesinger, and everyone else who has either been a guest or supported Cutting the Curd thus far! For this very special episode, Brian Keyser, Dimitri Saad, and Leigh Friend of Casellula Cheese Wine Café are in...

This week Cutting the Curd gets gets cut down to size, or rather gets shrunk, with the help of microbiologist Rachel Dutton who is a fellow at FAS Center of Systems Biology. There she is putting cheese under the microscope and using the simplified, experimentally tractable microbial ecosystems found growing...