Calum HodgsonCalum Hodgson

Calum Hodgson, aka The Curd Nerd, is a "New Zealand farmstead cheese evangelist" and the cheesemonger at Auckland food store Sabato.

Fighting to protect our whey of life: Eketahuna celebrates cheese solidarity

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Curd nerd Calum Hodgson wants you to come to a small North Island town to stand in defence of the small-scale farmhouse cheese tradition.  The Great Eketahuna Cheese Festival is a cheese community keen to connect with others in an act of #CheeseSolidarity. This is a small cheese fest in a small part of provincial New … Read more

The revolution will not be pasteurised: A farewell to Biddy the cheese warrior

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Biddy Fraser-Davies of Cwmglyn Farmhouse Cheese passed away on 13 July, aged 76. Her friend, cheesemonger Calum Hodgson, pays tribute. I would call cheesemaker Biddy Fraser-Davies on my commutes home from Auckland CBD to Whangaparāoa. I’d been making these calls to Biddy every other day now for the last three years, discussing everything from Eketahuna’s … Read more