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Leading the whey for women in business

A Durham woman has launched a brand new company aiming to break the mould of the region’s culinary landscape.

Julia Cammis has developed the Durham Cow Cheese Company over the last 3 years, and is now catching the attention of chefs at some of the North East’s most exclusive restaurants and hotels.

Julia has attended cheese making courses with the UK’s experts, as well as converted the family garage into a custom-made workspace complete with a cheese vat.

Julia said: “I embarked upon a Start Your Own Business course at the North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC), before working with Pulse Creative Marketing and Glow Creative, which allowed me to develop the image of my product, whilst experimenting with the cheese, searching for the right consistency. Creating the same flavour on a consistent basis was the real challenge and this took time - I had to practice constantly.”

Julia’s cheese has now been placed in a number of outlets including Oldfields Restaurant and Grafton House Hotel in Durham, where it has continued to impress. At Durham Cathedral’s restaurant, the head chef was so impressed with the cheese that he has served it to celebrity guests including Bill Bryson.

Willie Herdman, Special Projects Manager at the North East BIC, says: “Julia’s story is a truly inspirational one, and it is wonderful to see the business flourishing after the eventful development period. At the driving centre of this story, we have a truly delicious blue cheese for the region, which I would encourage all cheese lovers to try!”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .