Casa Del Caciocavallo, a family-owned Italian cheesemaking business in Gardiner, will now have its hand-rolled organic cheese available for purchase in the entire Northeast region and in the specialty food store Whole Foods.
While owners Fred and Cristina Destefano first opened their cheese business, made and rolled and aged on their family-owned farm, in 2003, Fred has been making cheese alongside his mother, Maria Destefano, since he was a young boy. “My mother in-law didn’t like to see any milk go to waste, so she started making cheese with it,” said Cristina, who does the sales, publicity and marketing end of the business while her husband is all about making the cheese.
Maria and her husband Vittorio came “straight off the boat from Italy and settled here [in Gardiner], where they had a family farm that was just to feed their family,” explained Fred, who works full-time as an electrician for SUNY New Paltz.
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