MOULD LIVE #4: Michael Cains, Pecora Dairy (Robertson, NSW)

This episode, recorded LIVE at our Sydney Festival in May 2021, is with Michael Caines from Pecora Dairy. Tucked away in the Southern Highlands village of Robertson, in New South Wales, Michael and along with his wife Cressida, make incredible cheese and also hold the title of making the first commercially available, uncooked RAW milk cheese in Australia; the Yarrawa This is no small feat. You’d be hard pressed to find a more articulate conversationalist on RAW milk cheese than Michael. So here we deep dived into the topic of raw milk and how their full circle operation is the basis of their exceptional cheese. Yes, we went full curd nerd here and discuss the particulars of sheeps milk compared to cow’s goats and others, why raw milk is so special and touch on the regulatory challenges cheese makers face here in Australia to make cheese from it. Let get into it