USA
Speaker
Michelle Buster
Founder of Forever Cheese and the largest cheese importer in the USA
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Over the past two decades, Michele Buster has been instrumental in bringing Mediterranean cheeses and accompaniments to the US market.
She first lived in Valencia, Spain, as a student, and then her first career in the sports industry took her back to Spain and Italy in the early 1990s, where she met her current business partner, Pierluigi Sini.
Sini's family had been making Pecorino Romano cheese in the Roman countryside for generations. Michele moved to New York to be with Pierluigi and ended up selling his family's cheeses. He had one condition: if they were successful, he would go to Spain to find quality Manchego cheese. Together they set up a new company called Forever Cheese in 1998 and soon expanded beyond cheese to other products from Spain. Today they import cheeses and speciality products from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and most recently Switzerland.
Michele is a member of the prestigious International Guild of Fromagers, has been made an honorary member of the Sao Jorge D.O. Consortium in Portugal, and has received an award from the Region of Murcia, Spain, as the person who has done the most to promote agronomy in the region.
She is currently working on the 'Salva Pastores' project.
