Transcript: Bringing Artisanal Cheeses To Beijing

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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
08-10-2008
Bringing Artisanal Cheeses To Beijing

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Visitors to China soon discover that it is largely a country without cheese. It has been for centuries. Sharon Ruwart thought she would have to give up her great passion for gourmet cheese when she moved to Beijing from California a few years ago. But the American soon found that other ex-patriots were bemoaning their cheeseless existence, so Ruwart founded the Beijing Cheese Society. The group is trying to spread the taste for fancy cheese in her adopted home. Sharon Ruwart is on the line from her home in Beijing. Welcome to the ...

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