A life-long passion for making fine cheese
By RNZ Life
Gabrielle Kervella, now in her 80s, fell in love with cheese making on annual visits to South West France to visit her husband’s parents.
Over a century ago Gabrielle Kervella’s grandmother was riding over the Tākaka hill on a Harley Davidson when it was just a gravel track.
Now, award-winning cheese maker Kervella is settled back in her birth place of Golden Bay where she continues to make the cheeses that have been a life-long passion.
It has been a fascinating and peripatetic life. …
Read the full RNZ Life story about Gabrielle Kervella’s memoir ‘Never tell Me I Can’t’.
Traditional French cheesemaking in Western Australia
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Gabrielle Kervella’s life story is as rich and layered as the cheeses she crafts.
And it was the story of her own grandmother’s – about a hundred years ago – regularly crossing Takaka hill on a Harley Davidson with her dress skirts flowing that made her want to tell her story.
And so she has written a memoir for her grandchildren.
