User:J brodu/Andante Dairy

Andante Dairy is a cheese-making operation based in Sonoma, California, and founded by Soyoung Scanlan, a former biochemist and dairy scientist. The cheese-maker was established in July of 1999, and today Scanlan provides some of California's most prestigious restaurants with their cheese and butter.

Founding
Scanlan was originally was a researcher for Kraft, assigned to develop new low-fat cheeses. However, after several trips to France, and taking a short course in cheese-making at California Polytechnic State University, she became interested in the art of cheese-making. She was taken in by Barbara Backus, owner of Goat's Leap dairy in St. Helena, whom allowed her to make some trial cheeses there. She originally had problems with her bid to