BRITISH REGIONAL FARMHOUSE CHEESES by D'Lynn Waldron. PhD, FRGS copyright
Over thirty years ago, the British Government gave D'Lynn Waldron the opportunity to find things she could promote for the benefit of Britain and the freedom to do that as she thought best. She had always loved British regional cheeses and there was not a single book on them and they were in great danger of going out of existence due to Britain joining the Common Market. Already some of their special qualities were being lost because Friesian cows were replacing the traditional British regional dairy cows. (D'Lynn wrote articles about the preservation of the traditional farm animals and of the seeds of traditional crops). The Milk Marketing Board was not interested in facilitating the promotion of British regional cheeses made on family farms. The Farmhouse Cheese Council was delighted to help D'Lynn gather the information on the cheeses and photograph the family farms for her feature articles that appeared all over the world. These articles created an export market so quickly that within months she was not able to buy Blue Wensleydale in Paxton & Whitfield, London's premiere cheese store. Today these regional cheeses, including some labeled from family farms D'Lynn photographed over thirty years ago, can be found in many American stores, including in Trader Joe's. Unfortunately, Blue Wensleydale is no longer made, and the only blue from that part of Britain is a 'continental-type' called Jervaulx Blue.
http://www.wensleydale.co.uk/
http://www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk/
