We Are Cheesemakers Cover Reveal

This is a project that has been difficult to ‘reveal’ given the heartache of the world.

When we are witnessing harsher border divisions, trade wars, watching young people prepared for deportation, chained and handcuffed, where stolen land, soil and rivers are being poisoned and partitioned once more, We Are Cheesemakers brings issues of food and climate justice to the forefront, continuing the mission of Saffron Press to move little citizens of change to reimagine this broken world.

As a daughter of immigrants with an ancestral heritage to the land, I have often heard the stories of waiting for a ‘stamp’. I have seen migrant workers on the farms in BC and California. A stamp is what they yearn for – a dream that somehow gives you permission to belong, that gives you a date and place to call home. This story draws a parallel with the patient maturation of parmigiano reggiano cheese making and the endless waiting for a stamp on a passport.

We Are Cheesemakers is illustrated by the lovely Parmeet Arora Bori whose patience with this project has been a gift.

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