This Teenager Is One of America’s Best New Cheesemakers
By Fiona Chandra | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT Avery Jones was on a school trip when she heard that cheese from her Shooting Star creamery had placed in the Americaan Cheese Society competition. When Avery Jones received the call back in 2019 that her first cheese had won third place for Best of Show in the American Cheese Society competition, she was in Scotland with her high school theater group. Jones was fifteen years old. Jones was the youngest cheesemaker to have placed that high in the competition, beating out over 1700 cheeses with her Alpine-style sheep milk cheese she named Aries. It also…