Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking

This comprehensive, user-friendly cheese making guide features delicious recipes, inspiring photos, and practical techniques for cheese enthusiasts from the avid home hobbyist to the serious commercial artisan. Let acclaimed cheesemaker Gianaclis Caldwell be your mentor, guide, and cheering section as you follow the pathway to a mastery of cheesemaking. With thorough explanations of the art and science that allow milk to be transformed into epicurean masterpieces, this all-inclusive cheese making book offers in-depth guidance on making artisan cheese on a small scale. This extensive guide to cheesemaking includes: • Detailed information on equipment and setting up a home-scale operation • Extensive process-based recipes • Everything you want to know about affinage (aging) • How to use oils, brushes, waxes, infusions, and other creative flavoring techniques • Beautiful inspirational photographs • Profiles of other cheesemakers • In-depth appendices for quick reference in the preparation and aging room Every serious home-scale artisan cheesemaker—even those just beginning to experiment—will want this book as their bible to take them from their first quick mozzarella to a French mimolette, and ultimately to designing their own unique cheeses. Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking will also prove an invaluable resource for those with, or thinking of starting, a small-scale creamery. A large part of the book includes extensive process-based recipes dictating not only the hard numbers, but also the concepts behind each style of cheese and everything you want to know about affinage (aging) and using oils, brushes, waxes, infusions, and other creative aging and flavoring techniques. Also included are beautiful photographs, profiles of other cheesemakers, and in-depth appendices for quick reference in the preparation and aging room. Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking will also prove an invaluable resource for those with, or thinking of starting, a small-scale creamery. Let Gianaclis Caldwell be your mentor, guide, and cheering section as you follow the pathway to a mastery of cheesemaking. For the avid home hobbyist to the serious commercial artisan, Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking is an irreplaceable resource.