10 episodes
Season 4
Cheese obsessive Will Studd continues his amazing journey, travelling to Italy, France, England and Cyprus to look at popular traditional benchmarks, and find out who makes them and how they get made. In this season, Will also explores the renaissance in hand-made artisan cheese in the USA and Quebec, and takes a special look at the fascinating new cheeses of Japan.
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Play previewEngland - The Champion of English Cheese
Episode 1Will visits influential cheese retailer Neal’s Yard Dairy in London, where cheese champion Randolph Hodgson explains how English traditional farmhouse country cheese was saved from extinction
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Play previewItaly & France - Corsica and Sardinia Traditional Cheeses
Episode 2Despite being close neighbours, these two large islands in the Mediterranean have distinctly different cheese traditions. While sampling Corsica’s renowned Brocciu, a soft Ewe’s milk cheese, Will is introduced to a traditional version ripened with maggots
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Play previewCanada - Artisan Cheeses of Quebec
Episode 3The Canadian province of Quebec is undergoing a cheesemaking revival. Will visits Quebec to find out whether the original French settlers have had any influence on this renaissance
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Play previewPortugal - Traditional Cheeses of Portugal
Episode 4Will travels to the rugged mountains of the north to find out more about the king of Portuguese cheeses, Serra da Estrela. Dating back to pre-Roman times, this ancient cheese is still made from ewe’s milk and curdled with the juice of cardoon thistles
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Play previewItaly - Mozzarella and the Cheeses of Campania
Episode 5Will journeys to Italy’s picturesque Campania region to look at stretched curd cheeses and finds it hard to resist the lingering flavour and sensual texture of buffalo cheese made from raw milk.
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Play previewUSA - Farmhouse Cheese of Wisconsin
Episode 6Will visits several of the exciting new farmstead cheese producers, including Uplands Cheese Company, before meeting Willi Lehner at Bleu Mont Dairy to see how he ripens cheese in an underground cave
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Play previewCyprus - Authentic Haloumi Cheese
Episode 7Will travels to the island of Cyprus to see how traditional Haloumi is still made from a mixture of goats’ and ewes’ milk
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Play previewUSA - Artisan Cheeses of the States
Episode 8Will learns first hand about the challenges of making farmstead washed-rind cheese in Virginia before meeting up with his old friend Ari at Zingerman’s Creamery in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Play previewFrance - Brie and the French Affineur
Episode 9Will visits the Ile de France region to learn more about the benchmarks of the style, Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun, before visiting Brie’s close cousin, Chaource, in the Champagne region
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Play previewJapan - The Japanese Cheese Revolution
Episode 10Do the Japanese like cheese? In this one-hour special episode of Cheese Slices, Will travels to Japan with leading Australian chef Tetsuya Wakuda to find the answer to that burning question