Cheesemaker Trevor Warmedahl hikes Mongolia to find traditional dairy methods
Trevor Warmedahl left his Seattle job to travel globally and document rare cheesemaking traditions in Mongolia during 2019.
Warmedahl quits commercial job
The former Seattle cheesemaker realized he used milk from animals he had never seen. He decided to quit his position and began a journey to find places that still make cheese the old-fashioned way.
Life in a Mongolian yurt
Warmedahl arrived in Ulaanbaatar in 2019 and lived alone inside a yurt with a dog. He discovered that dairy products held sacred status among the local women who performed milk libations before processing.
Summer work on the steppe
He traveled by train across the Gobi Desert to stay with a herder family on the Zavkhan grassland. During his summer there, he woke before dawn to milk yaks and cooked sweet-and-sour curds called aaruul.
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