If you’ve followed The Third Half for any length of time, you’ll know I like cheese. Quite a lot.
So getting an actual cheesemaker on was probably overdue.
This one came the way the best things always do. Rebecca at The Ferm pointed me to Dani at Hamish Johnston, and Dani pointed me to Julie Cheyney. That’s how The Third Half keeps going, one good conversation leading to the next.
Julie, founder of St Jude’s Cheese, is great company, and knows an extraordinary amount about milk and cheese. We start with cheese, obviously, but soon wander into farming, soil, climate, the changing way we think about food, and a really lovely conversation about what being ‘rich’ actually means.
What I wasn’t expecting was how quickly the conversation moved beyond the cheese. Her passion for what she does, her life, her view of nature and community, and how all of that sits right alongside the cheese itself. We laughed a lot, which is becoming the norm on this show, but there’s a real poignancy in this one too.
There are stories from the very beginning of St Jude’s, some realities of cheesemaking I certainly didn’t know, and more than one unscheduled appearance from our dogs.
Then we finish with possibly my favourite quick fire yet. Julie is put on the spot over some fairly contentious cheese choices before we discover a guilty pleasure I definitely wasn’t expecting.
Although, yep, I inevitably manage to make that slightly weird too.
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/5e6fb690-64a9-4d92-a528-e42eef25dd2c/
Scott
People. Planet. Progress. And cheese. Obviously.