{"id":3197,"date":"2014-01-23T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T03:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2014-04-28T23:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T03:45:19","slug":"a-lesson-in-cheesecraft-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-lesson-in-cheesecraft-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Cheesecraft: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t always want to work in cheese. It didn\u2019t even occur to me until my final semester of college. Up until that point I&#8217;d planned on applying to medical school, but then a surgeon I was shadowing told me to go into medicine only if I want it to be my whole life, for the rest of my life. The idea of everything other than my career, including my family and happiness, taking a permanent back seat shook me from my planned path and left me searching for a new career possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Food has always been a great passion in my life. I spent the last two years of college going to the Pawtucket winter market and buying cheese from Louella Hill, who was then the cheesemaker at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richeeses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Narragansett Creamery<\/a>. During that final semester, after my talk with the surgeon, I went to her every week and asked about how I might make my way into the cheese world. Finally, after some screening, she connected me with a sheep dairy in Tuscany, the very same place she had spent months learning how to make cheese five years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, I started my path in cheese at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pecorafelice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Podere Campriano<\/a>, a working farm in Sovicille, Italy. There I developed a passion for the art of Italian cheesemaking and a love for sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning to the U.S., I worked as a butcher for a year before joining the Somerville, Massachusetts-based<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fioredinonno.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiore Di&nbsp;Nonno<\/a>. I ran the kitchen, making hand-stretched mozzarella, burrata, and stracciatella with local Massachusetts milk.<\/p>\n<p>I loved my time at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fioredinonno.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiore Di&nbsp;Nonno<\/a>, but I couldn\u2019t stay away from Italy and my favorite sheep\u2019s milk cheeses for too long. So, I returned to Tuscany to work for the farm&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/corzanoepaterno.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corzano e Paterno<\/a>. Over two months, I helped produce and care for fourteen different kinds of sheep\u2019s milk cheeses, from washed rinds to blue cheeses, from young cheeses to 18-month aged Pecorino.<\/p>\n<p>Today I work as a cheesemaker and monger for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beeskneessupply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bee\u2019s Knees Supply Co.<\/a>&nbsp;in Boston\u2019s up-and-coming Fort Point neighborhood. I hand stretch fresh mozzarella, stracciatella, and burrata in-house. I also work to build their domestic cheese repertoire by connecting with cheesemakers from all over the country and bringing distant American artisan cheeses to Boston!<\/p>\n<p>Now that you understand my background, let&#8217;s get into the meat of this blog series: This fall I had the unique opportunity to travel to England and France to complete a series of courses in professional cheesemaking and affinage. This courses were through&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolofartisanfood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The School of Artisan Food<\/a>&nbsp;on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire England, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academie-mons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Academie Opus Caseus<\/a>&nbsp;in Saint-Haon France. In England, I crafted a few cheeses under the guidance of Ivan Larcher, cheesemaker and consultant extraordinaire, and brought them with me to France, to mature them under the guidance of the professionals at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mons-fromages.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">MonS Fromager-Affineur<\/a>&nbsp;caves. It is truly extraordinary to watch a cheese go from milk to mold formation in a few short weeks. 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