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Tasting Sweet Cream and Cultured Butters. Twenty-one Cook's Illustrated staff members sampled 10 nationally available butters at room temperature, spread on crackers, rating the butters on flavor and texture.

First Place in Butter Taste Test — “Bragging rights to go Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery Cultured Butter with Sea Salt Crystals ($4 for 4oz.). Tasters loved its ‘complex, tangy’ flavor. The soft crunch of the grains of salt studded throughout was also a pleasant surprise.”

Good Cheeses Come in Small Packages. Smooth or wrinkly, citrusy or lush, there’s a lot of deliciousness in pint-size fromage. Bonne Bouche: “A Glorious Cheese...”

“Pioneers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are rugged, some are soft-spoken, some are in the right place at the right time. What they all have in common is a vision and a willingness to take risks.”

Allison Hooper, Award-winning cheesemaker, Cofounder/owner of Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery, and President of the American Cheese Society, 2005–2008, meets with Culture's editor Elaine Khosrova to tell the story of her success in cheesemaking.