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Article: Gourmet cheese is a growing trend around the country
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 24, 2006
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NEW YORK - Day after day at work, Brian Ogden found himself
sitting in front of a computer and staring at the lower right-hand
corner - the tiny clock on the screen ticking on, all too slowly.
"I was bored out of my mind," said the 32-year-old database
expert.
So he quit his job at a Massachusetts high-tech company and moved
to New York to start an unpaid internship - to learn all about
cheese.
And not just any cheese. Ogden works at the Artisanal Cheese
Center, a 10,000-square-foot space on Manhattan's West Side that is
evidence of a growing trend in the United States. Gourmet cheese
production has expanded dramatically, with people like Ogden getting
into the business.
While many young men ...