Farmer feeding milk producing goats from a bucket

Season 5

9 Episodes

In the award-winning fifth season of Cheese Slices, Will Studd unearths ancient classics from the dramatic mountains of Norway, Scotland and Piedmont, and familiar benchmarks from the rolling green pastures of Germany, Denmark and Wales. This season also features rare behind-the-scenes access to traditional cheese making in Provence and Sicily, plus a special look at artisan cheese made in Tasmania, Australia.

Purchase Season

Episodes

The Viking Cheeses of Norway

Will travels to the spectacular fjords of Norway to look at rare skimmed milk cheeses dating back to Viking times.

Italy - Traditional Cheeses of Sicily

Will looks at the many flavours of Sicilian Pecorino, and visits one of the last farmhouse dairies making a saffron-flavoured cheese from ewe’s milk, before finding himself in a Dickensian cheese-maturing room that is several centuries behind the times

The Nordic Cheese Revolution

Will travels to the pretty island of Bornholm to see how Danish blue is made, before heading to Copenhagen.

Scotland - Chieftains Cheese and the Isle of Mull

Scotland is not renowned for good cheese, but in the rugged rolling highland country Will unearths an ancient sour cream ‘chieftains’ cheese called Caboc.

Italy - Traditional Cheeses from the Hills & Alps of Piedmont

Will investigates the many different types of Toma cheese made in the Alps before travelling to the Langhe Hills and meeting the producers of two endangered cheeses protected by the Slow Food movement.

Caerphilly and the Artisan Cheeses of Wales

Will travels to Caws dairy to meet a family responsible for re-creating farmhouse Caerphilly before catching up with an old friend at Gorwydd farm

Australia - Tasmanian Artisan Cheeses

Will invites his friend Tetsuya Wakuda to accompany him on a tour of Tasmania and to demonstrate a few of his unusual recipe ideas with the local dairy produce

AOC Cheeses of South Eastern France; Banon, St Marcellin

Will travels to Provence in the South East of France to try Banon, a traditional benchmark goat’s milk cheese wrapped in dried chestnut leaves

Artisan Cheeses of Germany

Will visits a small biodynamic farm to discover how Quark, Germany’s most popular fresh cheese, is made and then Tilsiter.