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🧀 The cheesy corner of Catboat Coffee Co.
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“Congratulations – You Are Now an ACS Certified Cheese Professional®”I had been anxiously awaiting this notification sin...
09/26/2026

“Congratulations – You Are Now an ACS Certified Cheese Professional®”

I had been anxiously awaiting this notification since taking the CCP exam back in July. So proud to achieve this cheese career milestone, sitting for and passing an exam that tests a wide breadth of knowledge from dairy farming, to cheesemaking, to history and tradition, to supply chain and distribution, to retail operations and food service. I managed to carve out time to study, while Oscar napped, while Aurora played, while grandparents stepped in and wrangled them both. It feels SO GOOD to set this goal for myself and really commit and follow all the way through.

I want to give a few special shout outs:
Thanks to the facilitators of great study groups, Bill Stephenson and Nathan Aldridge Nathan’s Cheese Kitchen Nathan Aldridge
Thanks to Wisconsin Cheese and the Cheese State University community cultivated by Dean of Mongers, Molly Browne Molly
Thanks to the Edgartown Public Library for being the site of many productive study sessions
Thanks to the countless authors and contributors to the Oxford Companion to Cheese and American Farmstead Cheese
Thanks to Zoe Brickley, cheese math goddess
Thanks to the wonderful Jasper Hill Farm weirdos for uplifting, esoteric cheese propaganda
Thanks to the The Cheesemonger Invitational for throwing a hell of a party and giving us a chance to try so many cheeses from “the list”
Thanks to my study buddy and cheese mom bestie Britt Britt Bisset, ACS CCP for the weekly sanity checks and nerdiest text discourse
Thanks to Forever Cheese for sponsoring the scholarship that allowed me to attend the ACS conference and sit for the exam in person
And most importantly, thanks to the most supportive husband and grandparent squad for encouraging me to chase this big goal and for caring for the cheese monsters while I was away.

This Fairy Cheesemother is just getting started 🧀✨

09/13/2026

Teaming up with Kaitie from Martha’s Vineyard Event Bar Service | Social Coast for this “Cocktails and Charcuterie Boards” workshop was SO FUN! Participants learned how to make a few cocktails, and then I shared tips and tricks for composing a show-stopping charcuterie board. And then when everyone left and we were cleaning up Kaitie made me an insanely delicious margarita. Wheeee!

Interested in hosting a guided cheese tasting or a board building workshop for your group? My DMs are open babyyyy 🤗

09/02/2026

Episode 10 Baby Led Cheesing! In Ohio! With the cousins! Courtesy of Marieke Gouda ✨

Anyone remember waaaay back in April, when Alex and I road-tripped to Ohio so that we could ditch our kids with my parents so we could galavant off to Italy? Well! Just days before we left for that road trip, our friends at Marieke Gouda sent us a box of cheese to enjoy. So we popped the whole thing in the cooler and brought it to Ohio with us so we could share it with the whole fam!

This episode really has it all! Cheese-themed children’s books! Nose picking! Baby wiggles! Attempted spicing! Toddler sass! Grabby hands! Babies impersonating claw machines!

Thanks Marieke for making award-winning Gouda and sharing it with us 🥹

Photo dump from the past few very cheese-filled weeks! From the The Cheesemonger Invitational to the American Cheese Soc...
07/21/2026

Photo dump from the past few very cheese-filled weeks! From the The Cheesemonger Invitational to the American Cheese Society, it’s been action packed!

Studying for the CCP exam was such a challenging yet rewarding task. I couldn’t have done it without my study buddy Brittany Bisset 🙏

Feeling so much gratitude for this cheesy community of curd nerds. Big things to come from The Fairy Cheesemother ✨

06/19/2026

Came out of retirement to build a few cheeseboards for a great cause!

Facilitated a guided cheese + w**e tasting for such a sweet bachelorette party! Work that doesn’t feel like work. Just n...
06/17/2026

Facilitated a guided cheese + w**e tasting for such a sweet bachelorette party! Work that doesn’t feel like work. Just nibbling/sipping/yapping about cheese. Manifesting more of these gigs for myself ✨

05/14/2026

Episode 9 Baby Led Cheesing! A solo Oscar moment that we recorded months ago and finally finished editing today, just in time to celebrate his first birthday! Behold his delightful boops and grabby hands. See where the flying chunks of cheddar wind up. And learn if Oscar has already mastered using the cheese plane. Happy birthday to this very happy cheese monster!

Featuring “2 Year Cheddar” and “Triple Play, Extra Innings” from

Meeting of the Milkmaids photo dump!A few weeks back, I was lucky enough to attend the fourth annual Meeting of the Milk...
05/12/2026

Meeting of the Milkmaids photo dump!

A few weeks back, I was lucky enough to attend the fourth annual Meeting of the Milkmaids gathering. I was an attendee of the inaugural gathering a few years back, and WOW it was so impressive to see how the group has grown and matured in just a few short years. The community and camaraderie of the milkmaids is really something special.

This year’s speakers were my fav cheese witch and the formidable world champ cheesemonger . Holy cow, what a duo. I’m working on a Substack post about my takeaways from their presentations. So many incredible insights shared ✨

It was so wonderful to gather with this community of likeminded cheese nerds, enjoy the awesome venue provided by , reconnect with friends, and taste a fabulous spread of cheeses! Here’s to many more gatherings 👏

Italy food photo dump! 🇮🇹🍝🥩I’ll be trying to piece together my favorite bits and bites over on my Substack in the coming...
04/28/2026

Italy food photo dump! 🇮🇹🍝🥩

I’ll be trying to piece together my favorite bits and bites over on my Substack in the coming weeks. The unsuspecting bowls of gloop were some of my favorite meals.

Some behind the scenes shots from my collab with , photographed by the illustrious .ewing ✨We worked on a special editio...
04/04/2026

Some behind the scenes shots from my collab with , photographed by the illustrious .ewing ✨

We worked on a special edition of the Cook the Vineyard newsletter titled “How to Build a Beautiful Grazing Board”. I just reshared it on my Substack if you’re in need of some inspo this weekend!

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