Dairy Apprenticeships at Cricket Creek
If the phrase “whey shower” doesn’t turn you off and you like the idea of learning to make cheese for a year, check out the apprenticeship opportunity at Cricket Creek Farm near Williamstown, Massachusetts. I recommend the position because I visited the farm this summer and was struck by the beautiful vistas, the enchanting animals [...]
Cricket Creek Farm
Earlier this year, my friend Paul Lawler left his job as a city cheesemonger to become a cheesemaker in the middle of nowhere. And by nowhere I mean rural Massachusetts, on a farm in the Berkshires where pigs outnumber people and you can’t get any cell phone reception unless you climb up to a deck [...]
Tobasi and Maggie’s Round
Some women love to be surprised with jewelry. I love to be surprised with boxes of cheese. On Friday as I was taking a writing break in the kitchen, a package appeared at the door. My UPS man gave me a funny look when I exclaimed, “Oh, that must be Paul’s cheese!” The label was [...]
The Desk of 170 Cheeses
Deadline Diary, Day 7: Some people make birth announcements; I make cheese announcements. Today, I delivered the final allotment of my 170 cheese descriptions to one Hunter Fike and one Ezekial Ferguson, my second readers at Di Bruno Bros. The manuscript is now 80% finished. One year ago this month, I began drafting a proposal [...]
Farewell, Paul Lawler
Every city needs a local cheese impresario. In Philadelphia, that person has been Paul Lawler. His bearded mug has been hovering around the Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal Market for as long as I’ve written this blog (3 years), helping eaters connect to local Bries, blues, and goat cheese. When he finishes his last shift [...]
