Do you love butter? Then this is the show for you. Tune in to this week's episode of Cutting the Curd as Anne Saxelby and Sophie Slesinger chat with three incredible guests about the different sides of this dairy delight. First, hear from artist Jim Victor who's incredible butter sculptures have been featured recently at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Next, food science expert Harold McGee chats about different types of butter and how you can make your own at home. Finally, Diane St Clair gives listeners some great details on her butter making and dairy farming. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

"There's sweet cream butter and cultured butter. They require different types of handling. All the cream no matter what needs to come from really good milk."

"Usually when people make butter in the kitchen, it's by accident. They're usually trying to whip cream."

"Sadly the best indicator of quality in butter is probably price."

--Harold McGee on Cutting the Curd

Happy National Peanut Month! Celebrate the month of the peanut with none other than Lee Zalben, Founder & President of Peanut Butter & Co, a sandwich shop in NYC and line of all-natural peanut butter. It was only a matter of time when people started clamoring to take the peanut butter home. Today, Peanut Butter & Co. is sold in ten delicious flavors in over 10,000 stores around the country and in Canada, the U.K., Japan, and Hong Kong. And the sandwich shop has turned into a pilgrimage site for many peanut butter lovers all over the world. Lee's dream to open a peanut butter sandwich shop did not just become a reality, but he also created the market for specialty peanut butter. Tune in and hear how his culinary journey started in college and find out what plans are in store for the future of Peanut Butter & Co! This program was sponsored by The International Culinary Center.

"All of our peanuts are grown in the US - and that's very important to us. 90-95% of the peanuts we use come within a 200 mile radius of our plant in Georgia." 14:00

"What we realized with our sandwich shop is that adults eat more peanut butter than kids every day. Nobody was producing a product that catered to adults as well as kids. So Peanut Butter & Co was the first peanut butter to go out there and say 'hey you can buy this for yourself and we'll give you a healthful formula, great packaging, and delicious flavors that you're craving. We'll do all the work for you so it's easy and convenient.' " [21:00]

--Lee Zalben, Founder & President of Peanut Butter & Co

Harold McGee on butter from Episode 89 of Cutting the Curd.