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Apple pie

without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze

Of Curds and Whey,

A History of Cheese Making in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry by Rosemary Rutley

For almost one hundred years, milking cows and shipping milk to the local cheese factory was a way of life for farmers in S-D-G.

From as early as the 1800's, when Glengarry's David Macpherson, Canada's Cheese King, controlled one-eighth of the nation's cheese production until Stormont's Irving Cutt became World's Champion Cheesemaker in 1964, this industry was first and foremost in the three United Counties.

Of Curds And Whey is the story of how the sweet, green grass of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry came to produce some of the very best cheddar cheese in the world.

A former teacher, author Rosemary Rutley, has lived most of her life down on the farm. Author of Voices From The Lost Villages, a history of the lost villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway, she is also the editor of Built On Faith, a history of St. Matthew's Presbyterian, a United Empire Loyalist church established in 1795.