Italy

When I started working with cheese I concentrated on France as I had spent so many summer holidays touring and winter breaks skiing there. My curiosity has never dimmed, but I also became interested in finding out about Italian cheese and why, with all the quaint Italian shops in London, the cheeses looked so processed. Surely there must be farm-made cheeses? Little by little I explored the regions and found a wealth of cheeses and producers who had never considered selling outside their immediate vicinity, let alone abroad or another part of Italy! Since my early foragings, the floodgates have opened and we see many handmade and small-production Italian cheeses not only in the UK and US but all over the world.