Cheese Trekking: How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir

Cheese Trekking recounts the author's experiences visiting pastoral communities and cheesemakers in various countries and explains how cheeses can be local manifestations while also representing global archetypes, strategies that have been adopted in many places. It describes the constellations (a range of complementary milk foods that utilize all byproducts of cheesemaking) of various regions through a wide-angle lens. The central premise is that milk has a terroir, born from the plants an...