The Brown family's (and Milawa's) contribution to Australian cheese cannot be underestimated.
It all started thanks to some encouragement from their good friend (and other cheese legend) Richard Thomas, David and Anne Brown got in there and gave it a crack at the Milawa Butter Factory in 1988.
The rest, they say is history, but it’s also the present. Many in the Australian cheese community still credit much of their early inspiration to the Brown family, especially that of Anne, including co-founder of MOULD, Nick Haddow from Bruny Island Cheese.
Very sadly, Anne passed away last year and although some times has passed since, her loss is still felt.
Her daughter Ceridwen, who I catch up with today, now runs this family business and she truly is a wonderful human being.
Family.
That is the word that first comes to mind when I think of MlIawa.
It’s at the core of who they are, where they’ve been and what their future holds. You really get a sense of it when you speak to Ceridwen and I’m so grateful to her for opening up and sharing some wonderfully personal stories here.
She really is an incredible human and truly embodies the family spirit of hospitality, sharing and passionately talking about what Milawa does. \And for those of you who have joined us at our festivals, you would have witnessed this first hand. And no doubt contributed to so many votes in the people’s choice.
She’s always out the front of her stand, with a massive Milawa Blue in arm, handing out samples.
I’m very grateful to her for being so open in our conversation here.
Or may that was the wine we had in hand whilst recording?
