Sue Riedl
Sue Riedl worked for 12 years in the Toronto film industry where her culinary passion was ignited while consuming countless unhealthy snacks off the craft service table. She put her writing energy into creating shows for children’s television and working on her own independant films.
In 2006 she had the opportunity to live in London, England for six months where her cheese infatuation began. Having taken a break from her job Ms. Riedl decided to try her hand at French cuisine by attending the Cordon Bleu in London. What began as a hobby turned into a career change. After her cooking studies Ms. Riedl returned to Canada and spent a year working in the restaurant industry at Colborne Lane and then C5 at the Royal Ontario Museum. Merging her writing and her passion for food seemed as logical a next step as her love of baking bread and eating cheese. She began freelance food writing while working as a cook, and her bi-weekly Globe Life cheese column, The Spread, was launched in the spring of 2008.
Ms. Riedl is a graduate of the Cheese Education Guild of Ontario.
Le Fleurmier cheese
Creamy, smooth and buttery – the perfect cheese with a glass of bubbly on New Year’s bubbly
Put one cheese in the spotlight this holiday
Once in a while it's nice to focus your taste buds on one really good cheese
Le Migneron Charlevoix cheese
Mildly tangy, it's a classic as well-known in Quebec as cheddar
Le Mamirolle cheese
A French transplant that's stinking delicious
La Pyramide cheese
Dense, complex and not too pointy - Napoleon would approve
Makin' cheddar better
A new breed of affineur aims to bring cheese to its peak flavour through ripening, but some cheese makers worry amateurs may hurt their reputations
Ewenity feta cheese
Fresh, tangy and cheaper than a trip to Greece
Grey Owl cheese
Soft, sweet and tangy, with a flavour-mellowing ash
Smoky and mellow with buttermilk hints of blue
The sweet smoky tang of this blue cheese adds zip to any summer barbecue
Cheese: Romelia
Taking it ‘low and slow' makes this goat deliciously smooth