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Whether it’s a semi-ironic obsession with artisanal cheese-making, a random passion for sitar music or a stubborn preference for a flip phone, there are many wonderful contradictions about humans that algorithms can’t quite pin down.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2025

Ms Geraedts believes rarebit became popular due to Wales' connection to cheese-making, despite its name being a sarcastic "patronising" English joke.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2025

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region, is a lively welcome.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

The family closed its unprofitable cheese-making business in Venezuela earlier this year and decided to join other relatives in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, where the men plan to work in construction.

From Washington Times • May 16, 2023

“I really would’ve rather you had a Talent for cheese-making, you know,” Dolores went on, ignoring the ferret.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff