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Rescuing Red Leicester: How Sparkenhoe's raw milk cheese became world-best

David and Jo Clarke set out to make farmhouse Red Leicester the way it was originally intended, and their raw milk Sparkenhoe is now named the world's Best Territorial Cheese

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Rescuing Red Leicester: How Sparkenhoe's raw milk cheese became world-best

Behind the smallest of cheese counters at Sparkenhoe Farm, a small handwritten chalkboard offers a hint of something extraordinary: 鈥楽parky Red 鈥� voted best artisan cheese in the world'. There are no...

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