An Interview with Peter Dixon and Rachel Fritz Schaal of Parish Hill Creamery

The Collective Creamery crew gets a visit from Parish Hill at Covered Bridge Farm in Oley, PA. From left: Sue Miller, Rachel Fritz Schaal, Peter Dixon, Alex Jones, Stefanie Angstadt

During the American Cheese Society Conference in Pittsburgh last month, we sat down with two of our good friend in cheese, the iconic duo of Peter Dixon and Rachel Fritz Schaal, owners and cheesemakers at Vermont's Parish Hill Creamery! They make the most enticing Alpine-style cheeses using grassfed milk from the neighboring Putney School's herd of cows, and they even create all their own cultures using milk from specific ladies in the herd. They've even gotten together with a crew of awesome cheesemakers in the Northeast (our very own Sue Miller is one of them) to create Cornerstone, a recipe for a true American original cheese that makers can use to express their own unique terroir from the milk down to the microbes. Listen in to find out how they make it all happen!