Jenny Linford, cheese expert, talks to some of her fellow pioneering women figures in the tight-knit world of cheese: Mary Quicke of Quicke’s Cheese, Sarah Appleby of Appleby’s Cheshire, Tracey Colley of Academy of Cheese, Hero Hirsh of Paxton & Whitfield.

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