Daphne zepos biography of donald

When Daphne Zepos died, too young, in 2012, she left behind a cheese-import company and a business partner dedicated to perpetuating what they had started.

Essex Street Cheese Company introduced many Americans to fine Comté and aged Gouda hand-selected from the best French and Dutch cellars.

A year after her death from cancer, Zepos’s business partner Jason Hinds traveled to the Greek island of Sifnos to assist friends and family in spreading her ashes.

While there, he had an epiphany.

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She was diagnosed three months ago with late stage cancer and passed away (at age 52) before many of us in the cheese world realized that things.

The Daphne Zepos Teaching Endowment exists to fund research in the cheese industry and to promote cheese education.

We thank all donors and sponsors for your continued support of cheese education in honor of Daphne Zepos, one of America's most inspiring cheese teachers.

On today's episode of Cutting the Curd, Anne Saxelby and Sophie Slesinger are remembering the life and work of cheesemonger, educator, writer.

To honor his colleague’s memory, he would add a feta to the Essex Street line. Zepos was Greek, after all, and feta fit perfectly with the core mission of Essex—to identify and import gold-standard versions of cheeses that had become commodities in the U.S.

Hinds tasked a well-known Athens chef with finding a world-class feta that Zepos would have been proud to represent.

The chef sent samples, Hinds narrowed the list to two producers and returned to