Cheese is a relatively simple food. It's made with milk, enzymes – these are proteins that can chop up other proteins – bacterial cultures and salt. Lots of complex chemistry goes into the ...

After emigrating from the Netherlands to Thorp, Wisconsin, where her then-husband had started a 350-cow dairy farm, Penterman was seeking a career path in her new Midwestern home. During one sleepless ...

The UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research and the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin are proud to announce the 2025 graduates of the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker® Program. (Back Row, L to R) Jeremy Werdeo, ...

THORP, Wis. (WEAU) - The state of Wisconsin is known for offering many products nationwide like beer or good old fashioned cheese. One cheesemaker in Thorp, Marieke Penterman has officially mastered ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- When industrial designer Jarutat Snidwongse Na Ayuthaya developed a passion for making cheese, family and friends doubted that he would find much of a market in a country with ...