Scran season 9: In conversation with the Cheese Lady

The latest episode of our podcast Scran is now live.

On this episode of Scran I visit ⁠The Cheese Lady.⁠ Svetlana Kukharchuk owns and runs two cheese shops in East Lothian.  

I went along to the Haddington store to find out more about how she came to make cheese into a business, how she sources and chooses her cheese and well, just more about cheese in general. 

Svetlana also shared some of her favourite cheeses with me for a tasting which, spoiler alert, was pretty delicious.

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The Cheese Lady, Court Street, Haddington, UK
The Cheese Lady, Court Street, Haddington, UK, EH41 3JD
Known for cake making, experimental jam recipes, Champagne, whisky and gin drinking (and the inability to cook Gnocchi), Rosalind is the Food and Drink Editor and whisky writer for The Scotsman, as well as hosting Scran, The Scotsman's food and drink podcast.
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