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A week after my fianc\u00e9 and I announced our engagement to our friends and families, I called my dad to ask him an important question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill you make the cheese for my wedding?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course,\u201d he answered. Then, after a pause, \u201cI was already planning on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

To call my dad a home cheesemaker is to severely misrepresent his depth of passion for something that has become far more than a mere hobby. The man graduated from fresh cheeses to fanaticism long ago. He reads cheesemaking books the way most people read novels and has converted multiple refrigerators into cheese caves to age his growing collection of wheels. My dad often claims that he\u2019s the inspiration for my working at culture<\/strong>, but in truth, it\u2019s really a chicken-and-egg scenario. Yes, he started making cheese before I was hired. But I\u2019m the one who sent him the cheesemaking kit that set off his obsession in the first place.<\/p>\n

Once my dad agreed to make cheese, there was a lot to decide right away. We needed to finalize our guest list early, because Dad wanted to make aged cheeses as well as fresh. In fact, he had made one wheel of Gruy\u00e8re before I even asked him to make cheese; he started 9\u00bd months before our wedding, the day he returned home after we announced our engagement.<\/p>\n

My fianc\u00e9 and I also needed to find a caterer willing to allow homemade cheese – from my dad\u2019s un-FDA-inspected kitchen – to be served as part of the spread at our reception. While this was tough, our final outcome made the effort well worth it. When my fianc\u00e9 delivered the giant box of cheeses to our caterer the day before our wedding, the chef literally danced with excitement.<\/p>\n

Because our guest list and much of our menu had to be settled so early, we actually enjoyed a long calm period in the middle of our relatively short engagement (November to September) when nothing needed to be done. Meanwhile, across the country, my dad was carefully scrubbing and turning wheels of cheese each day, and making more every few months. He\u2019d send me updates:<\/p>\n

\u201cBelow is the cheese inventory as it currently stands. Check marks indicate cheeses already made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAttached are some suggestions for cheese descriptions. Feel free to edit them any way you like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, it was time to ship 25 pounds (a whopping \u00b9\/3 pound – or more than 5 ounces – of cheese per person<\/em>!) from my dad\u2019s apartment in California to our place in Massachusetts. Dad called me for the two-day forecast each morning until we found a couple of days that would be cool and overcast. He emailed me the tracking number so I could claim, unpack, and refrigerate the precious cargo as soon as it arrived. Would it be mangled? Melted?<\/p>\n

The day of our wedding was beautiful. We were married by a friend under a tree outside a historic home in Belmont, Mass., in a quiet, simple ceremony. Once we exchanged rings, our guests were shepherded to a shaded porch, where tables were laden with appetizers. The centerpiece was a magnificent display of my dad\u2019s cheese – all of which had survived the journey intact. Emmentaler, Gruy\u00e8re, Stilton, Saint Andr\u00e9. A blue Colby and a Morbier with a line of ash running down the middle. Two fresh ch\u00e8vres, one covered in crushed peppercorns, the other in chai.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure how many of the caterer\u2019s appetizers were taken back to the kitchen, but I know that not a bite of cheese remained to clear away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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