The Amazing Cheese Story, Day 1

Last night was our first class in The Amazing Cheese Story at Santa Fe College Community Education. We have a fantastic group of cheese enthusiasts in the class. We talked about the best of times and the worst of times for American cheese. We sampled two artisanal cheddars, a goat milk and a cow milk. And we tried the cheese curds that Russ and I made earlier in the day...not quite ready for prime time, but pretty good. They just didn't have the magic cheese curd squeak. We are eager to try again with better milk. We had to use homogenized because it was all we could get yesterday. Maybe the squeak was pulverized out when it was homogenized.