Cutting the Curd
Featuring interviews with notable cheesemakers, cheesemongers, and cheese-lovers, Cutting the Curd is an informative, occasionally irreverent, but always cheesy look at the curdy, the nerdy, and the downright funky world of artisan cheese.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 570
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Episode 370: Book Review: Cheese Beer Wine Cider
Diane welcomes Steve Jones of Portland's Cheese Bar and writer Adam Lindsley––co-authors of Cheese Beer Wine Cider: A Field Guide to 75 Perfect Pairings––to the show this week. Listen as Diane gets t…
00:41:00 |
Mon 25 Feb 2019
Episode 369: Travel. Teach. Cheese. Repeat! A New Vision for the Daphne Zepos Teaching Award
This will be seven years since the DZTA was founded in 2012. The organization has grown its squad of cheese teachers, just released a newly defined vision for the organization and has a revamped memb…
00:40:28 |
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Episode 368: Murray's<–>Kroger Retailer Profile
Founded in 1940, Murray's Cheese remains a New York City institution. Over the past ten years they've taken their cheese show on the road, and 430 stores later they have made their mark within their …
00:45:22 |
Mon 11 Feb 2019
Episode 367: The Dawn of A New Sheep Era
Our 2019 Cheesemaking Elements series kicks off with...milk! Sheep’s milk, at that, in all its luscious glory. Elena interviews Mariana Marques de Almeida, sheep and goat specialist on everything fro…
00:45:16 |
Mon 04 Feb 2019
Episode 366: Monthly Book Review: You Are a Complete Disappointment by Mike Edison
On this month's book review Diane Stemple interviews Mike Edison, fellow Heritage Radio Network host (Arts & Seizures) about his latest memoir, You Are a Complete Disappointment, A Triumphant Memoir …
00:47:23 |
Mon 28 Jan 2019
Episode 365: Cheese in the Professional Kitchen: Can chefs and line cooks save the artisan cheese industry?
Cheese-focused culinary specialist, Rachel Freier, joins Elena in studio. Rachel’s experience working with chefs and culinary students reveals that, unlike truffles or prime cuts of meat, specialty c…
00:37:13 |
Mon 21 Jan 2019
Episode 364: Cheese Tourism with Cheese Journeys
On today's show Elena looks at a facet of the cheese business that's tangential to the supply chain: cheese tourism. Anna Juhl, Founder and CEO of Cheese Journeys and Sylvain Jamois, Private Chef and…
00:34:13 |
Mon 14 Jan 2019
2018 Host Show: Elena, Diane & Aaron In Studio Together
Elena, Diane and Aaron all gather in-studio as an end-cap to our fall season and 2018! This episode features reflections on the cheese industry this year, host-picks for 2018 Cutting the Curd season …
00:39:41 |
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Episode 362: Marieke Penterman: On Borenkaas, Wisconsin and the reality of America's family-owned cheesemakers today.
Marieke Penterman is no newcomer to the American artisanal cheesemaking scene––or to this podcast! On today's show Elena and Marieke chat about the joys of a well-aged business and how Marieke got to…
00:43:54 |
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Episode 361: How To Kick Ass at Retail–or Anything!–by Optimizing Your Workflow
Following up on our Supply Chain 101 show with Aaron and Glenn, on the first half of this week’s show Elena goes in-depth with Brie Hurd of The Cheese Shop of Salem on her simple [and brilliant] appr…
00:47:14 |
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Episode 360: The Power of Parmigiano Reggiano
"The King of Cheese" or as Elena puts it, "The Queen of Umami" – today's show is all about the wonders of Parmigiano Reggiano. Grace Singleton of Zingerman's Deli sheds light on the Consorzio del For…
00:52:02 |
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Episode 359: From Farm to Face: Cheese Supply Chain 101
Glenn Hills joins new addition to our host team Aaron Foster in studio to talk about supply chain and how cheese gets from the farm to your face. We'll touch on importing rules, what it's like in the…
00:33:24 |
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Episode 358: Tia Keenan and Hot Cheese
Tia Keenan is back in studio with Diane for this month's book review. Melt, Stretch, & Sizzle: The Art of Cooking Cheese – the book just landed and it is fierce! With a captivating style the photos t…
00:34:37 |
Mon 05 Nov 2018
Episode 357: 2018 DZTA Winner Eric Meredith
On this week's episode host Diane Stemple takes a break from book reviews! Diane chats with 2018 DZTA Scholarship winner Eric Meredith about his project vision and how it's coming along so far.
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00:37:44 |
Mon 29 Oct 2018
Episode 356: It Takes a Village... to make cheese!
Elena's fascination with cooperative approaches to business turns to cheesemaking as she looks at unique partnerships among Wisconsin cheesemakers. Today's show features Ann Bates of Landmark Creamer…
00:38:15 |
Mon 22 Oct 2018
Episode 355: Independent Retailers: A Call to Action
Elena continues to explore the cheese retail landscape! Today's guests are Laura Downey and Chris Palumbo, owners and cheesemongers of Fairfield and Greenwich Cheese Companies in Connecticut and Chee…
00:39:46 |
Mon 15 Oct 2018
Episode 354: Meet Aaron Foster!
Aaron Foster's cheese and specialty food shop, Foster Sundry, has made major Bushwick waves since it landed in 2015. A hospitality haven with a serious cheese selection, go now if you haven't yet bee…
00:42:07 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
Episode 353: Successful Cheesemaking
Merryl Winstein is the author of Successful Cheesemaking, a book eight years in the making – a true tome to tommes! (Gotta love a cheese pun.) Diane chats with Merryl on this week's show about her ex…
00:43:39 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
Episode 352: Is anyone really winning with traditional business models in the cheese industry?
The Cheese Board Collective is a fifty-year-old worker-owned cooperative business located in Berkeley, California. On this week's episode Elena chats with worker-owners and cheese buyers Omri Avraham…
00:41:56 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
Episode 351: Your virtual ticket to the 2018 SF Cheese Fest
Elena takes us out to San Francisco for the 4th annual SF Cheese Fest, hosted by the California Artisan Cheese Guild. Meet the folks behind Achadinha Cheese, Folly Cheese Co., Stuyt Dairy Farmstead C…
00:30:14 |
Mon 17 Sep 2018
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