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Article: Cheese wizardry: Judith Schad's pioneering spirit yields beautiful chevre.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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Byline: William Rice
Judith Schad _ a determined and resourceful self-starter _ is cut from the same cloth as those 19th Century farm women who made the West habitable once the men folk had won it. If something they wanted was not available, they made it.
So it was with Schad and goat cheese. In the late 1970s, she tasted some produced in California by Laura Chenel, a pioneer in the American artisanal cheese movement. "I was smitten," she recalls. "I wanted to go straight home and make some and, being a dumb city girl, I had no idea how hard that would be and how much harder it would be to convince people to try it."
It took a move from ...