Cheese Chats - Cheese Chats Episode 3: Martin Gott on 'Natural' Cheesemaking

Cheese Chats Episode 3: Martin Gott on 'Natural' Cheesemaking

06/10/18 • 49 min

Martin Gott, maker of St James Cheese and one of Britain’s foremost cheese-makers talks about his farm and natural cheese-making in this in-depth interview. In this 50-minute podcast, Andy & Kathy of The Courtyard Dairy chat to Martin on how he creates a truly unique farmhouse cheese that captures the nature of his Cumbrian farm, and how he is doing so by harnessing the bacteria natural to his milk, and creating his own 'starter cultures' to truly show the uniqueness of his farm.

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