Jeffrey Roberts

🏷️ Category: Food & Drink

🏘️ Town: Montpelier, Okemo Valley

💬 Jeff Roberts is the man the New York Times called a walking encyclopedia of American cheeses — and Vermont is lucky he's ours. The Montpelier author wrote The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese, the first book to chronicle every handmade cheese in the country, plus Salted and Cured on America's preserved meats. He co-founded the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at UVM, leads Slow Food USA's raw-milk cheese work, and co-hosts multi-day cheese tours through Vermont with Cheese Journeys — tasting at farmstead creameries, meeting the makers, hitting farmers markets. Nobody connects a wedge of clothbound cheddar to the pasture, the animal, and the hands behind it quite like Jeff.