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Article: Breaking the mold Troy artisanal cheese maker keeps demand high by creating a robust flavor underground
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- March 28, 2009
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Eight feet underground, in a bunkerlike cave, a solitary light
bulb illuminates wooden shelves filled with wheels of cheese. Some
have a light mold scattered across their tops - small puddles of
white or green; others are enveloped in a featherlike mold of silver
threads.
Water drips from the concrete ceiling onto the gravel floor. It's
just about 40 degrees and 96 percent humidity.
"It's almost like a tomb, isn't it?" artisanal cheese maker and
farmer Robert Perol says.
It took Perol two years to construct his cheese cave, which is
accessible only by a crude homemade elevator from his cheese room
above. "This cave needs no refrigeration and provides an incredible
rind," he says.
As he ...