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Cheese award judge Michael Hooper

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Man looking closely at a large slab of holy yellow cheese

New Zealand cheeses come in a bewildering range of varieties. At the 2003 New Zealand Cheese Awards the judges had to assess 432 varieties, entered by 23 producers.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 29 March 2003

by Paul Estcourt

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Tessa Copland, Italians – Migration chains, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2568/cheese-award-judge-michael-hooper (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Tessa Copland, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.