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Dairy Diaries 2006

Dairy Diaries 2006

I don't know what I was thinking when I booked a ticket for a 6 AM flight out of SFO. Rather I do know what I was thinking. I was thinking, "I'm saving us $100 each on these tickets." At 4:30 AM when my alarm rang, I would have paid anyone $100 to have a few more hours sleep. Still, we were on the road at 4:30 and it actually turned out to be a good thing. It put us closer to East Coast Dairy time and made us better houseguests while we were staying on farms.

My travel partner was Sheana Davis of the Epicurean Connection. I've worked with Sheana for over a decade and she is also mostly responsible for a yearly cheese industry conference held in Sonoma. While we may have different styles of travel planning, there is no one better to go on a cheese road trip with. She has the chef/catering background, I have the cheesemonger one, and neither of us can stand pretentious foodies.

I should offer a disclaimer on this series. There won't be a lot of mocking, gossip, or trash-talking because the places I went to visit were places where there were people I like and respect. There actually aren't a lot of pretentious cheesemakers in the world, just a lot of pretentious cheese marketers, consultants, writers, and even mongers. Getting up at 4:30 AM every day can kill off a lot of the fancy-fancy.

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