Celebrating Women in Cheese: A History Deep Dive.

By Molly Bourg The Early Dairymaid If we’re going to talk about women in dairy, we have to start with the word itself. Dairy comes from the Old English, daerie, ...

Warehouse District Fall Events

We've got a lot of fun planned for the fall at our Warehouse District shop! Starting Friday, October 20, Friday and Saturday hours will be extended from 11am to 6...

The State of the Cheese - 2021

The pandemic has certainly changed restaurant operations world-wide. And as daily work begins at 5004 Prytania on a chilly winter morning, the evidence of change is all around the St. James Uptown shop.

Interview with Leslie Goff of Consider Bardwell Farm

Consider Bardwell Farm, producer of delicious cow and goat milk cheeses, was founded in 1864 by a man named Consider Stebbins Bardwell. It was the first milk co...

St. James Cheesemongers on PBS Reactions!

Some cheeses, like Epoisses, are so legendarily stinky they’re supposedly banned on public transit in France. It’s the chemistry of washed-rind cheeses that make...

Interview with a Southern Cheesemaker: Kat from North Carolina's Prodigal Farm

In honor of our August featured producer Prodigal Farm, we asked its founder and Head Cheesemaker, Kathryn Spann, some questions about life on a Southern goat far...

Cheesemakers in the American South: Sweetgrass Dairy

When St. James Cheese first opened in 2006, most of our cheese case was European. We love the classics, but we hoped that someday American cheeses could dominate ...