A Cheesy Introduction

I was given a $20 bill to start this blog and was told to follow my dreams. 

I'm a very passionate person.  When someone asks me what my biggest passion is, I look them straight in the eye and reply, "cheese." I usually get a chuckle, a few laughs, but I'm not joking. I want to build a life around rennet.  My dream jobs consist of:

• being a maîtresse du fromage in a fancy restaurant
• writing a cheese column for an important publication
• being a wholesale cheese buyer for a retail store
• operating a artisan grilled cheese food truck
• owning a few goats and an apiary and making honey chevre (but still living in a city!)
• being a cheesemonger with my own store

I suppose writing in a blog is a good start. You could say I have had an obsession with cheese my entire life. When I was first grader in Connecticut, reading Little Golden Books, I saw on the publication page some were from Wisconsin.  Thinking Wisconsin was a "land of cheese," I drew hearts all over the page and informed everyone that is where I would live when I grew up. I still have never been to Wisconsin!  I would only order grilled cheeses at restaurants and never had a sandwich (save a fluffernutter) without cheese. Kids in elementary school called me "CheeseBurger" and my classmates would gather around me in the lunchroom as I ate as many cheese cubes from the cafeteria as I could.  I've had almost 30 years of eating and loving cheese.

Despite all my daydreams and obsessions, I haven't done anything with my passion for fromage.  This changes today.  I know I'm not special; there are hundreds of people just like me writing cheese blogs. But I'm determined to find my place in the cheese world and make something of myself - even if it's just a blogging hobby.

Hi, I'm Nicole, The Queso Queen.

Closest I've been to Wisconsin - Visiting Rybicki Cheese in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota