Devote your life to cheese

Diana Pittet, now working on a dissertation about American cheddars at New York University, quit teaching Latin to work at Neal’s Yard Dairy, London’s foremost cheese store. Lori van Handel was a full-time art conservator in Williamstown, Mass., who became a freelance to free up time to take cheese classes in Manhattan and Vermont.

Now, I dare you to tell me that there are no great American cheeses, or that there is no cheese culture here. I dare you!