A collection of morsels from a year of making cheese at home: a work in progress that I plan to update as I gather more information and that I hope is useful.
Books I have used/consulted:
- Home Cheese-Making by Ricki Carroll
- 200 Easy Homemade Cheese Recipes by Debra Amrein-Boyes
- The Home Creamery by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley (watch out for typos on temperature: on page 85, 108 should be 180; on page 67, 120 becomes 110 and I am not sure which one is correct)
- On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (Chapter 1: Milk and Dairy Products provides a wealth of useful information and it is a pleasant read)
Web sites I have consulted for recipes and other information:
- Dr. Fankhauser's Cheese page
- New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
- Fias Co Farm Home Dairying & Cheesemaking
Where to get cheese-making supplies
– in store (Bay Area and the North Coast):
- The Food Mill (Oakland, CA): liquid (vegetable) rennet
- Rainbow Grocery (San Francisco, CA): liquid (vegetable) rennet
- The Beverage People (Santa Rosa, CA): pretty much anything you may need
- Mollie Stone's (San Francisco, CA, Twin Peaks location): rennet tablets
- The Pasta Shop (Oakland, CA): cheese-making kits, citric acid
- North Coast Co-op (Arcata, CA): a wide selection of products, including rennet (both tablets and liquid), cultures, salt, wax, calcium chloride
- Let It Grow (Arcata, CA): citric acid, tartaric acid
– online:
- The Beverage People (Santa Rosa, CA): a wide selection of products, including rennet, cheese cultures, molds
- New England Cheesemaking Supply Company: everything you may need
- Cheesypress: my cheese press
- Urban Cheesecraft (Portland, OR): cheese-making kits and refills (also available at some retailers)
Magazines to which I subscribe:
- Cheese Enthusiast: lovely publication, with very interesting information for the home cheesemaker
My contributions:
- my posts on cheese & dairy, which include experiences of making cheese at home and of using what I made in my kitchen
- my article Making Cheese with Lao Tzu published on Edible East Bay [download pdf file from the Contents page]
Do you have useful information to share?
Leave a comment on this page or email me at simosite AT mac DOT com
