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The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, by David Asher.
A lot of DIY cheesemaking books are hard to follow, complicated, and confusing.
In The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, David Asher practices and preaches a traditional, but increasingly countercultural, way of making cheese—one that is natural and intuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological science.
Introductory chapters explore and explain the basic elements of cheese: milk, cultures, rennet, salt, tools, and the cheese cave.
The fourteen chapters that follow each examine a particular class of cheese, from kefir and paneer to washed-rind and alpine styles, offering specific recipes and handling advice.
The DIY bible for home cheese makers from expert David Asher from the Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking, author of Milk into Cheese
Includes more than 35 step-by-step recipes, from kefir and paneer to washed-rind and alpine styles
David Asher practices and preaches a traditional but countercultural way of making cheese—one that is natural and intuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological science. Fully illustrated with hand-drawn diagrams and photos, David’s guide for home and small-scale commercial cheesemakers includes:
• An exploration of the basic elements of cheese: milk, cultures, rennet, salt, tools, and the cheese cave
• How to source good milk, including raw milk
• How to keep your own bacterial starter cultures and fungal ripening cultures
• How to make your own rennet—and how to make good cheese without it
• How to use appropriate technologies and avoid the use of plastic equipment and chemical additives
• Chapters covering cheeses like Gouda, Feta, Chèvre, and Blue
(softcover-275 pages)
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