What You Should Know About Rennet

Trevor Warmedahl with cheese photo credit Alexandra Pomper

Rennet, one of the four foundational ingredients of cheese, may be the black sheep of the family. It’s mysterious, tied to the slaughter of young animals, and most cheese consumers don’t understand its impact on the cheeses they enjoy.

“Rennet is perhaps

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Farmstead Cheese Making in Laos

Susie Martin conducting a public tour of Laos Dairy Farm photo credit Ketki Gad

I could hear pigs squealing as I entered the dairy premises. In another pen were adorable bunnies. A little farther away, water buffalo were being washed and fed, seemingly oblivious that their milk was about to

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The Top Cheese Trends of 2026

There is a point at the Summer Fancy Food Show when your palate starts to wave a tiny white flag. You have tasted cheese, dumplings, olive oil, boba tea, fancy soy sauce, chocolate, another cheese, something fermented, something spicy, something “functional,” something that may or may not have been lunch.

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Can Tourism Save Artisan Cheese?

Goats in pasture – courtesy of Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery

The University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana is the largest college in the state, in a metro of about 240,000 people. Just five miles outside the campus, locals and visitors take classes in pasta making, basket weaving and forest bathing. That

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