#3: Kym Masters, Section 28 (Adelaide Hills, SA)

In today’s episode, we speak to Kym Masters from Section 28 who are from the wonderful Adelaide Hills in South Australia. We recording this podcast at the height of home isolation but what I love about this conversation was that we talked about the impact and influence that traveling the world can have. With distance can come perspective as well as inspiration and motivation. And it is travel that is at the core of Kym’s, and the Section 28s, story. Thanks to a family trip to the humble, and beautiful town, of Monforte d’Alba in the gastronmic paradise of Piedmont, in Italys North West, it sparked the inspiration to create what has become, in our opinion, one of the great cheeses in Australia. Aptly named, and in tribute, to the town, Monforte. We know we will embarrass Kym by saying that as he is way too humble but this is yet another example the evolution of Australian cheese. And that something we should all be proud of. Yes, cheese makers here may draw inspiration from Europe, or anywhere frankly, but they take that and then craft something that is uniquely and unapologetically from this land. Let’s face it, drawing inspiration from elsewhere is nothing new. We could say the same for music, the arts, architecture … anything. It’s what people do with it that matters and in Section 28’s case, we are all the benefactors. We really enjoyed this chat with Kym and hope you do too.