A Holiday Book in Review: Home Cheese Making

Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Homemade Cheeses By: Ricki Carroll
Non-Fiction, cooking 263 pages
Book count: 78

First, this book is written by the Queen of home cheese making, so if you look up anything on the subject they will either refer back to this book or her personally 90% of the time. (Also her company is the most popular home cheese making kits maker.) That being said I expected the book to make cheese making sound easier then this book did. (Especially as the book used to be called "Cheese Making Made Easy.") For example, a number of recipes had directions like "Raise the heat by two degrees every 5 minutes," which seams a lot more complicated then you would expect with things you make at home. It is possible that it is something that is a lot easier to do then it sounds or the recipes are a lot more fluid, but that is the optimal way of doing it; however, in any way the book doesn't seam like the best way to learn how to make cheese. If the ingredient list was used with the step-by-step pictures on the company's web site (http://www.cheesemaking.com/ only for some of the recipes in the book) it would be more beginner level. That being said the basic information on what happens during cheese making is very helpful for learning about the process of making cheese and there are a number of tasty looking recipes for what to do with the cheese.