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
The Allure of Wisconsin: Three Cheesemakers Tell Their Stories
Recorded live in the HRN Podcast Lounge at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, WI in September, we sat down with cheesemakers Orphee Paillotin, Marieke Penterman, and Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz to tal…
01:07:13 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Cheese Pro By Day, Comedy Pro By Night
Tune in this episode when Joe interviews Cheese Professional Jeff Buck, who daylights as a cheese monger and moonlights as a comedian in the LA area circuit and beyond. Hear how Jeff runs bits and ch…
00:41:58 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
Madame Fromage's Adventures in Cheese
Tenaya Darlington is an author, instructor and a restaurant cheese director based in Philadelphia. She's well known for her cheese-centric adventures, which she shares online and in person through a …
00:40:17 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
Interview With Amye Gulezian of High Lawn Farm, Jersey Cows and the Massachusetts Guild
On today's episode we have Amye Gulezian, the Specialty Foods Operations Manager at High Lawn Farm, located in Lee, Massachusetts. Amy has been both a cheesemaker and cheesemonger since 2018 and has …
00:28:48 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Tom Perry and Shelburne Farms, A Look At Vermont Cheddar
Our guest today is Tom Perry, cheese sales manager of Shelburne Farms, a cheddar producer located in Vermont. He has been a cheesemonger in the New England scene for many years and was a previous win…
00:49:11 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
Love and Labneh
Loveneh Labneh is a collaboration between Erivan Yogurt and Merion Park Cheese Co, The story of these two Philadelphia-area companies, and how they came together, is a modern story rooted in traditio…
00:49:24 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Team USA and the Mondial du Fromage
In this inspiring episode, Joe checks in with CMI Masters Champions Courtney Johnson and Sam Rollins. Courtney and Sam will each individually represent Team USA in September 2023 at the Mondial Du Fr…
00:55:09 |
Mon 24 Jul 2023
Meet CMI 2023 Winner Sarah Simiele
Sarah Simiele, owner of The Curd Nerd in Syracuse, NY has forged a path from Microbiology studies to cheese shop ownership with no signs of slowing down. A story about following your passion and taki…
00:37:40 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
Honoring Former CTC Host Diane Stemple
We're doing things a little differently on this week's episode of Cutting the Curd. Our dear friend and former CTC host Diane Stemple is being recognized by the new world chapter of the Guilde Intern…
00:36:43 |
Mon 26 Jun 2023
The Cheese Shop Des Moines Story and the 2023 ACS Conference
Today we welcome CJ Bienert to CTC for the first time! CJ & Kari Bienert are the owners of both the Cheese Shop of Des Moines and Cheese Bar of Des Moines. We discuss what it was like in 2011 to star…
00:51:33 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood with author Anne Mendelson
In her latest book, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood," Anne Mendelson deconstructs the history of 'drinking milk' and the myths, scientific developments, and social constructs that have suppor…
00:50:07 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Beehive Cheese: A Look at B Corp Certification and Utah Cheesemaking
Our guests are Oliver Ford and Britton Welsh, Director of Sales and President of Beehive Cheese respectively. We examine how they became B Corp certified and the advantages of being a B Corp company.…
00:42:17 |
Mon 22 May 2023
Tales from a Nomadic Cheese Maker
On our latest episode, Joe chats with Trevor Warmedahl, the 2022 Daphne Zepos Teaching Endowment Award winner. Trevor is known as the "Milk_Trekker" by his popular instagram and YouTube handle where …
01:02:07 |
Mon 15 May 2023
That Cheese Plate Wants to Party with Marissa Mullen
Marissa Mullen, founder of That Cheese Plate and creator of Cheese By Numbers, is back with us to celebrate her new book, That Cheese Plate Wants to Party. We get into the details of writing a second…
01:00:57 |
Mon 08 May 2023
It's Pizza Time with Peter Reinhart of Pizza Quest!!
We finally got a Pizza expert on Cutting the Curd! On this episode Cara and Joe interview Peter of HRN 's Pizza Quest about everything form best practices of cheese to the new wave dough movement hit…
00:59:31 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Happy Spring! A look back at Goat Cheesemakers : Mike Lee and Judy Schad with Greg Blais in 2014
Back in June 2014, almost a decade ago, our former CTC host Greg Blais chatted with Mike Lee of Twig Farm Vermont and Judy Schad of Capriole Goat Cheese Indiana to learn the differences between the t…
00:39:29 |
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Meet Zach Berg and Will Werner of Mongers' Provisions
Zach Berg and Will Werner met when they were ten years old in Michigan. After living in the Bay Area for a few years, they wrote a mission statement for a new food business, Mongers' Provisions, focu…
01:09:36 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Charting the Course in Cheese
In this episode, we catch up cheese monger extraordinaire Lassa Skinner about the many hair pin turns she has taken in her storied career as a cheese professional. Lassa is co-founder of Culture maga…
00:51:51 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Cheese Care on the Counter: Monger Education in the Field
Cheeses are alive, and cheeses of all types are influenced by their environment. Once a cheese leaves the caves and enters the suppy chain, we need to do more than cross our fingers that it will make…
01:10:25 |
Thu 23 Mar 2023
Sheana Davis the Buttermonger, a Review of Compound Butters
On today's episode, we discuss with buttermonger Sheana Davis the various butter types in available in the US, how compound butters can be made, and what makes them special. Plus, we look at the attr…
00:35:48 |
Mon 13 Mar 2023
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