Journal

Ellie and Sam make Culture’s 2026 Hot List: 20 People Redefining Cheese

An Hour in Nature with Sam and Ellie Studd

“Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality,” wrote Clifton Fadiman. Sam and Ellie Studd grew up cheese connoisseurs.
For An Hour in Nature, Sam and Ellie talk about the hours they spend outside — and why good cheese starts there.

Will Studd — cheese expert, author, and filmmaker — joined the Cheese Academy live from Australia to celebrate the release of his landmark new documentary series, Cheese: Searching for a Taste of Place.

Watch unseen footage of Holy Goat captured just before their closing

Will’s brand new cheese documentary Cheese Searching for a Taste of Place is here

A small snapshot of our cheese party at the Ace Hotel Sydney for our Book Launch

It has been suggested that age does not matter unless you are a cheese. Time, however, can certainly intensify our obsessions

Read an extended interview with the Jasper Hill Brothers about on the challenges of working with raw milk.

We put David Gremmels in the cheesy hot seat after our visit to Rogue Creamy in Oregon, USA.

Discarded domestic butter churns have been cluttering up antique shops for years, but it never occurred to me to buy one until I visited France.

We put Burke Brandon, from Prom Country Cheese in our Studd Sibling hot seat in our recent visit to the dairy.