Juliet Harbutt Explained

Juliet Harbutt
Nickname:Master of Cheese [1]
Url:www.thecheeseweb.com
Birth Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation:Cheese expert: author, educator, judge, campaigner, consultant, trainer and speaker

Juliet Harbutt is a New Zealand cheese expert.[2] She is an author, judge, consultant, campaigner, speaker, educator and tour guide. She acted as consultant to Prince Charles and Alex James when they were developing their own cheeses.[3] In the 1990s she worked with Tesco in devising their cheese classification system.[4] In 2000 she created The Great British Cheese Festival.

Career

In the 1970s Harbutt opened a café deli, The Parson’s Nose in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1983, while travelling around Europe, she attended cookery classes in Paris,[5] where she discovered a passion for cheese, saying it was “a revelation to someone who had grown up with block cheddar.”[6] She also visited Steven Spurrier’s wine shop Les Caves de la Madeleine.[7]

After selling The Parson’s Nose she moved to England in 1983,[8] where she co-founded Jeroboams – the Wine and Cheese Shop, in South Kensington, which was “largely responsible for introducing London to a whole new cheese concept.” After realising that “selling cheese was not enough” she sold the company to her partner in 1991, moved to the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire, where she ran cheese-related masterclasses and events and began to publish books.[9]

She acted as a cheese consultant for clients that included Tesco, Harrods and Marks & Spencer.[10] [11] She has judged cheese competitions in Switzerland, France and America.[12] She is a member of the Guild des Fromagers - Confrerie de Saint-Uguzon and Chevaliers de Tastefromage.[13] In 1992 she was given the title Confrerie des Chevaliers du Taste-Fromage de France.[14] She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.[15] She has helped many people design and launch their own cheeses, including the then Prince Charles and her Cotswolds neighbour, Alex James.[16] [17]

Highlights include:

In 2016, after 35 years in England she moved to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand[27] where she established Hunter Gatherer Tours.[28]

Cheese making and selecting

Harbutt made two cheeses with Alex James: Little Wallop (2007) and Farleigh Wallop (2009),[29] the latter won the Best Goat’s Cheese award at the 2009 British Cheese Awards.[30]

She created the Simply the Best range, a selection of award-winning artisanal English cheeses, including Creamy Lancashire, Smoked Lyburn and Double Gloucester.[31]

Publications

She has written for magazines, including Bon Appétit (USA), Cheese Buyer Magazine,[33] Speciality Food,[34] Dish.co.nz,[35] and NZ House and Garden.[36]

TV and radio

Harbutt has made regular radio appearances. She has also appeared on BBC 1's Eat Your Words (1996),[37] Ready Steady Cook, Saturday Kitchen, The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain (2009), Come Dine with Me (winner) (2009)[38] [39] and BBC 4's The Food Programme - A Life Through Food (2015).[40]

Awards

See also

Eat Up! The Best British Cooking Is Not Dead, It’s Just Hiding (2010) Pub. Kyle Cathie

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Master of Cheese Juliet Harbutt . afternoon . . 2023-12-09.
  2. Web site: Britain is now the big cheese in Europe . Peter Marsh . ft.com . 2023-12-09.
  3. Web site: Cheese Making: Cotswolds . Katie Jarvis . greatbritishlife.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  4. Book: Bell, Annie . 2017 . The modern dairy : nourishing recipes using milk, yogurt, cheese and cream : discover the science behind this nutritional powerhouse . Kyle Books . London . 26 . 978-0857833587.
  5. Web site: FT Foodies: Juliet Harbutt . Natalie Whittle . ft.com . 2023-12-09.
  6. Web site: Profile: Juliet Harbutt – Farewell to the cheese lady . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  7. Web site: FT Foodies: Juliet Harbutt . Natalie Whittle . ft.com . 2023-12-09.
  8. Web site: Why the cheese knives are out . Tim Walker . independent.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  9. Web site: Profile: Juliet Harbutt – Farewell to the cheese lady . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  10. Web site: Artisan Cheese Masterclass . . stuff.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  11. Web site: The Cream of Cheese . Tamasin Day Lewis . telegraph.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  12. Web site: Don't make a 2nd-rate camembert, Kiwi cheese-makers told – be unique . Katy Jones . stuff.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  13. Book: Harbutt, Juliet . 1999 . Cheese . Mitchell Beazley . London . 195 . 1840000805.
  14. Web site: Don't call your cheese Brie . Alice Neville . stuff.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  15. Web site: Andy Swinscoe of the Courtyard Dairy in Settle heads to Italy . Lesley Tate . cravenherald.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  16. Web site: A life championing cheese . Metropol . metropol.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  17. Web site: Alex James says 'cheese' in the country . . foodepedia.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  18. Web site: British cheese awards: The big cheeses and the people judging them . Tim Walker . independent.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  19. Book: Bell, Annie . 2017 . The modern dairy : nourishing recipes using milk, yogurt, cheese and cream : discover the science behind this nutritional powerhouse . Kyle Books . London . 26 . 978-0857833587.
  20. Web site: A life championing cheese . Metropol . metropol.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  21. Web site: Hawkes Bay-based international cheese judge wants more New Zealand cheese on the shelf . . nzherald.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  22. News: 1994-03-15 . Liverpool Echo . . Say Cheese! . 28 . Liverpool, UK .
  23. Web site: Slow food fans go mad for asparagus . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  24. Book: Campion, Charles . 2010 . Eat up! The Best British Cooking is not dead, it's just hiding . Kyle Cathie . London . 128 . 9781856268561.
  25. News: 1999-03-14 . Scotland on Sunday . Fiona Beckett . How slow can you go? . 116 . Edinburgh, UK.
  26. Web site: A life championing cheese . Metropol . metropol.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  27. Web site: Hawkes-Bay based international cheese judge wants more cheeses on the shelves . . nzherald.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  28. Web site: International cheese expert Juliet Harbutt on why she has returned to the Hawke's Bay to set up Hunter Gatherer food tours . Anna Tait-Jamieson . thisnzlife.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  29. Book: Jarvis, Kate . 2009 . Cotswolds . Crimson . Richmond, UK . 215 . 9781854584632.
  30. Web site: James names cheese after New Order track . Simon Reynolds . digitalspy.com . 2023-12-09.
  31. Web site: Juliet Harbutt leads British Cheese invasion at Sobeys . Andy Shay . cheeselover.ca . 2023-12-09.
  32. Web site: Award 2010 winners . . gfw.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  33. November 2015 . Juliet Harbutt . Juliet Harbutt's Best British Blues . Speciality Food . Colchester, UK . Artichoke Media . 47.
  34. March 2015 . Juliet Harbutt . Small bites . NZ House and Garden . Christchurch, NZ . Fairfax Magazines . 133.
  35. Web site: Stories of Cheese: A Case of the blues . Juliet Harbutt . dish.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  36. March 2015 . . Small bites . NZ House and Garden . Christchurch, NZ . Fairfax Magazines . 133.
  37. Web site: Eat your words . Lynda Kettle . pebblemill.org . 2023-12-09.
  38. Web site: Kiwis help rebuild Sri Lankan dairy industry . Sudehs Kissun . ruralnewsgroup.co.nz . 2023-12-09.
  39. Book: Sayer, David . 2009 . Come dine with me: How to throw the perfect dinner party . Channel 4 . London . 80 . 978-1905026623.
  40. Web site: The Food Programme . . bbc.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  41. Web site: Profile: Juliet Harbutt – Farewell to the cheese lady . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  42. Web site: Profile: Juliet Harbutt – Farewell to the cheese lady . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  43. Web site: Profile: Juliet Harbutt – Farewell to the cheese lady . Helen Peacocke . oxfordmail.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  44. Web site: Map of the week: Cheese . Mark Easton . bbc.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  45. Web site: Juliet Harbutt: A life through Food . . bbc.co.uk . 2023-12-09.
  46. Web site: Finalists for the 2010 New Zealanders of the Year (UK) announced . . nznewsuk.co.uk . 2023-12-09.

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