Davao cheese queen’s new 'chambre à fromage'
BY MB LIFESTYLE Oct 15, 2024 10:57 PM By Jinggoy I. Salvador If you love cheese, then you know Olive Puentespina, Davao’s queen of cheese. It’s an honorific she doesn’t acknowledge. She would likely say, “All I did was create cheese because Marvin, Jolina and Rica, my husband’s three goats I took under my care, were fast multiplying.” What to do with the milk? Bottle and sell it? Make soap? Make cheese! And the rest is history, as the proverbial phrase goes. ALL HAIL Davao's cheese queenn Olive Puentespina at the new & bigger Leon's Lounge Olive’s journey to cheese royalty is unlike any monarchical protocol where the next in line inherits the crown. She worked her way to where she is now by learning the ABCs of dairying and cheese making under the tutelage of many, including Swiss masters. Her thirst for knowledge brought her to the US, Mongolia, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, and in each destination she learned more. Back home, the kitchen was where all the magic starte