As the incomparable bell hooks wrote in 2016, ‘To truly be free, we must choose beyond simply surviving adversity, we must dare to create lives of sustained optimal wellbeing and joy.’ From creating equitable opportunities in the dairy industry, to telling the quiet parts loudly about kitchen life during American...

Culture Magazine's Thalassa Skinner joins host Greg Blais to catch us up on the magazine, cheese education and current events in cheese.

Tune in for a fun and insightful episode of Cutting the Curd as Greg Blais is joined by friend and cheese expert Max McCalman. Max is a highly visible advocate for artisanal cheese production, and is renowned as one of the cheese world's living legends for his expertise, insight and...

On a new episode of Cutting the Curd, hear from last year and this year's recipients of the Daphne Zepos Teaching Award. The Daphne Zepos Teaching Award is an annual scholarship awarded to a USA-based cheese professional who uses the funds to travel, learn and further their education on cheese...

The cheese world is changing! Certain certification programs are evolving and there are more options than ever for aspiring cheesemongers looking to learn about the industry. With that, comes controversy. On this week's episode of Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby chats with cheesemonger Greg Blais of Eataly about certification programs...

The results are in! This year's Cheesemonger Invitational in San Francisco was a huge success and a winner was crowned - Perry Soulos! Tune in and hear from both Perry and the organizer of the wildly successful event - Adam Moskowitz. Hear how cheesemongers faced off, what plans are in...

What is affinage? Simply put, it's the art of ripening cheese. However, as you'll learn on this episode of Cutting the Curd, it's a complicated art that is as challenging as it is rewarding. Hear from Susan Sturman, of the Academie Opus Caseus, a school for cheese professionals in France...

Lassa Skinner is a woman who knows her cheese. As founder/owner at Culture cheese magazine and Co-Author of Cheese For Dummies, she knows how to translate her cast amount of cheese knowledge to the public. On this week's book review of Cutting the Curd, join guest host Diane Stemple as...

Diane Stemple's guest on today's Cutting the Curd is Max McCalman, the Dean of Curriculum at Artisanal. Listen in to hear Max recount some of his first childhood cheese memories, and his goal to dispel nutrition misconceptions about cheese. Hear about Max's initial cheese education at Picholine, and how it...

On today's episode of Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby and Sophie Slesinger are remembering the life and work of cheesemonger, educator, writer, and chef Daphne Zepos. Anne and Sophie speak with two call-in guests for the occasion. Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman's recalls Daphne's passion and eloquence when it came to...