Dear Cory, our office in Dubai is filled with delicious Hyper Cheese but we agree with you it’s sometimes hard to find supplies to make cheese here. We mainly concentrate on making fresh cheeses like ricotta, paneer, and crème fraîche since they’re rarely made locally. The harder cheeses are easier to come by in Dubai because they’re aged and can travel better. Just this week we feasted on a tomme de savoie and an oldie but goldie mimolette. Besides being hard to source, making your own fresh cheeses makes sense because the ingredients are readily available. It’s much tastier and cheaper than buying imported “fresh cheese”!

Check out The Kitchn for their recipe on how to make paneer and crème fraîche. And wikihow for a ricotta recipe. Our next experiment is making cheeses with fresh and frothy camel milk. Look for updates on camel milking soon!