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2019 Application Packet
Contents
Explanation of award FAQ
Endowment vision
About Daphne
What to submit and when
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Daphne Zepos Teaching Award
Explanation of Award FAQ
What is the award? What does a winner have to do?
The Daphne Zepos Teaching Award 1. Travel to Europe to immerse
(DZTA) is an annual scholarship themselves in cheese learning.
given to a food industry professional 2. Attend the 2020 American
to further their learning—and their Cheese Society Conference to
ability to educate others—about teach what they have learned.
cheese. It was established in 2012 in
honor of Daphne Zepos, one of
America’s most inspiring cheese Is there a restriction on how the
teachers. $5,000 is spent?
How the money is spent is up to the
What’s the value? winner. It can be to pay expenses for
travel or pay home expenses like
The 2019 award is $5,000. rent while abroad, as long as the
expenditures are related to the
educational journey.
Who is eligible?
There are only two requirements for Who decides the winner?
eligibility
The board of directors of the Daphne
1. The recipient must have worked Zepos Teaching Award.
in the food industry for at least
three years. Giorgio Cravero, Cravero 1855
2. The recipient must be a member Debra Dickerson, Cowgirl Creamery
of the American Cheese Society. Laure Dubouloz, Mons USA
There are three ways: Hunter Fike, Di Bruno Bros.
a. Individual Membership. Sam Frank, Jumi Cheese
b. The business they work for Mo Frechette, Zingerman’s
has an active Small Jason Hinds, Neal’s Yard Dairy
Business Membership. Betty Koster, Fromagerie L’amuse
c. The business they work for Mary Quicke, Quicke’s
has an active Corporate
Membership.
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What is the board looking for?
They’re seeking a compelling vision
from someone who wants to make a
lasting educational impact in the
cheese world. They’re looking for
someone who can make the most of
the funds. They’re looking for a
proven track record of getting things
done.
When is the winner announced?
The 2019 winner will be announced
at American Cheese Society Invitation 1: Mary Quicke
conference, July 31-Aug 3, 2019 in Mary Quicke makes farmstead
Richmond, Virginia. cheese at Home Farm, her family’s
450-year-old farm in Devon,
England. Her cheddar is sold
When does the winner receive the throughout England and in America.
$5,000? She invites the winner to come live
When the recipient has made on the farm and work making
significant progress towards their traditional British cheese.
arrangements for travel the board
will release the funds.
Is there a deadline to complete the
travel and education?
It must be complete so you’re ready
to present at the 2020 American
Cheese Society Conference.
Will I get help to plan my travel?
The DZTA can put you in contact
with people but it will be up to you to Invitation 2: Hervé Mons
plan and follow through on all travel Hervé Mons directs his family’s
cheese affinage company, MonS, in
What if I don’t know where I want southeastern France, near Lyon.
to travel? Their cheeses, selected and aged,
There are five open invitations. You are widely sold throughout France
can write your vision about learning and the world. He invites the winner
at any one of these. Of course feel to come live and work at his aging
free to write about your own facility and participate in his training
preferred destination. and education program.
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dairy and Michael Spycher’s Gruyère
dairy to learn about the cheese
making, from the aspects of the
Swiss landscape that affect flavor to
the self-produced cultures that are
key to cheese production.
Invitation 3: Jason Hinds
Jason Hinds is a partner at Neal’s
Yard Dairy, London’s great selector,
retailer and wholesaler of British
cheese. Jason invites the winner to
come to London and learn about any
and all aspects of the cheese
selection, retail, wholesale and
export business.
Invitation 5: Jan Dirk
Jan Dirk is a farmstead cheese
maker. He produces Remeker from
the raw milk of horned Jersey cows
in the eastern Dutch province of
Gelderland. Jan invites the winner to
learn about organic farming and
animal husbandry at his 400 year old
farm.
Invitation 4: Gourmino
Gourmino is a small collection of
Swiss cheese makers and agers.
They invite the winner to spend time
at Bernhard Meier’s Emmentaler
4Daphne Zepos Teaching Award
Endowment Vision
August 2022
It’s been a decade since Daphne they’ve learned, in classroom
died. We still miss her presence. Her settings formal and informal.
unique passion and her love for
cheese and life, learning and The DZTA has continued to be a
teaching, can never be replicated or leading force in the cheese world: for
replaced. The Daphne Zepos learning, for connection, for quality,
Teaching Award, created and for education, for the spirit of
announced just a month after her generosity. There are now often
passing, has carried her legacy three award winners every year. The
forward. It’s generated so much scope of their work and research has
energy around cheese learning, grown to be global—we’ve had
cheese handling, cheese selling, applications for travel to South
cheese studies and cheese America, Africa, and Asia and two of
sensitivities that Daphne herself the winners have gone outside
would have been taken aback at the Europe.
positive progress.
There is always at least one
On a personal level, while her shoes scholarship of at least $5,000. There
remain unfilled, her presence in the have also been years when we had
industry has actually grown. more than one award and in some
Thousands of cheese educators, cases, we’ve targeted the additional
cheese sellers, cheese consumers, award for a specific kind of education
writers and chefs are now very or video. We’ve now helped to
familiar with her name and her work contribute to the beginnings of a very
even though they never had the cool series of learning-focused films
chance to meet her, or even know of that feature the farmers and artisans
her while she was alive. It’s crazy but who make the cheese, the folks who
there are now young kids in some of age and ship it, and those who sell it.
the classes taught by award winners The films have short clips that are
who were born after Daphne passed shared across all sorts of media and
away. the long form video has found its
way into the ACS conference and a
Daphne’s vision was to create an number of archives.
award that food professionals used
to travel and learn about traditional We’ve had years where the award
cheesemaking. They came back to was greater than $5,000, too. We
America to become cheese have experimented with junior
teachers. Here they spread her awards (to younger people who have
passion for education, teaching what much less experience in the
5industry), mini-scholarships (where in unexpected, compelling ways.
past winners get a stipend to travel That has helped our outreach, to find
and teach), and employer stipends more amazing applicants than ever
(to help small businesses cope with from all over the food world and
the temporary loss of a winner who made our group of teachers more
leaves to travel). diverse than ever.
Financially the DZTE is super sound. We’ve become better at teaching
There is $400,000 in the bank and teachers how to teach. True to
other investments. Fundraising never Daphne’s original vision, we commit
stops. We have sought out and ourselves to creating teachers, not
found a deep stream of industry finding them. We have developed a
donors, legacy donations, and we mentoring group who help winners
organize regular fundraising events. create compelling content and teach
The board evaluates the financial it with panache. There is a defined
health of the endowment each year process to guide the teachers
and uses its judgment to spend through assembling their material to
money in ways beyond a single creating a presentation. Winners find
scholarship, including loans and they have a structure to help guide
grants for education. them during research and
construction so they have a far more
The board of directors is a dynamic impactful presentation.
group of food industry professionals.
Many—but not all—are directly The winners have taught more types
involved in cheese. Above all the of students than ever before. There
board seeks to have a balance of have been DZTA winners teaching
perspectives and keep the focus on with food organizations like Slow
teaching about traditional cheese. Food in Italy, and the Southern
The group has worked together by Cheese Guild. They’ve taught at
consensus to define and improve grade schools, middle schools, high
how they operate and the two- or schools, trade schools, community
three-year terms that each works colleges and university colloquiums.
under fly by, a queue of great new Daphne’s dream is stronger than
candidates await each opening. she’d have ever imagined. Today,
there is a squad of cheese teachers,
The board regularly experiments with each inspiring in their own way,
new ways to apply for the award. teaching what they know to make
From the vision writing we started cheese better understood, better
with, to video presentations to things made, and enjoyed more.
we never thought of in 2017, we now
find teachers who present their ideas
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About Daphne
Daphne Zepos was one of the most Daphne served as a board member
outspoken, insightful and dynamic of the American Cheese Society and
advocates for the cause of traditional did formative work for many years as
cheese here in the U.S. and around the Chairperson of the organization's
the world. Over the last twenty years Annual Judging. She was a co-
Daphne played a prominent role in founder of the Cheese of Choice
nearly every major cheese event in Coalition, an advocacy group
the U.S. and Europe. dedicated to the preservation of raw
milk and artisan cheeses. From 2002
She lectured, moderated, and to 2005, she played a lead role in
presented at the American Cheese selecting and maturing more than
Society's Annual Conference. She 300 cheeses in Artisanal Premium
taught at Slow Food's bi-annual Cheese Center's pioneering affinage
Cheese in Bra, Italy, at the College cheese caves in Manhattan,
of Marin, the Cheese School of San established Artisanal’s Affinage
Francisco, Neal's Yard Dairy in Internship Program and, contributed
London and Zingerman's in Ann to creating and running Artisanal’s
Arbor. Over the years she taught Cheese Master Class program.
literally thousands of students both
professional and vocational, and in Daphne was the recipient of the
the process helped significantly 2012 American Cheese Society's
improve the quality of cheese and Lifetime Achievement Award. Ari
the knowledge and understanding of Weinzweig, co-founder and CEO of
cheese mongering in this country. Zingerman’s Community of
Businesses in Ann Arbor noted that
In 2006, Daphne founded the Essex “Daphne’s work to educate retailers,
Street Cheese Company, which chefs, cheese mongers and cheese
imports a small selection of hand- makers has contributed enormously
selected cheeses from Europe. to a huge improvement in the quality
Together with her business partner, of the cheese on counters across the
Kiri Fisher, Zepos and her husband country. Her passion, the poetry of
Brad purchased The Cheese School her cheese descriptions, her never-
of San Francisco in 2011. It is the ending drive for better flavor, for
only independent institution of its teaching people what makes good
kind in the U.S. dedicated to helping cheese good, and for making
people maximize their enjoyment already-good cheese even better is
and appreciation of cheese through truly unrivaled.'"
education and tasting events.
Daphne passed away in San
Francisco in the summer of 2012.
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What to submit and when
Must have from you
1. Proof of membership in American Cheese Society
2. Résumé (no format prescribed, suggested length 1 page)
3. Application vision (see description in this packet, next page)
4. A media presentation of audio, images or video, talking about your vision
or showing you teaching. This does not have to be complicated. It can be
a video taken on an iPhone, a brief presentation on PowerPoint, or even
an audio file taken on your phone or some other device.
• If audio: maximum 2 files; mp4 or mp3 format only; maximum 5 minutes each.
• If images: maximum 20 images; jpeg, PDF or PNG files.
• If video: maximum 2 videos; MOV format only; maximum 5 minutes each
• Upload media to Dropbox and share with info@dzta.org
Must have from two others
5. One letter of recommendation from a member of American Cheese
Society (see description in this packet, next page)
6. One letter of recommendation (may be a member of ACS or not, see
description in this packet, next page)
Due date
May 31, 2019
Send to
Daphne Zepos Teaching Award Administrator
info@dzta.org
435 901 9024
http://daphnezeposteachingaward.org/
The Award Administrator will confirm receipt by email.
If you do not get an email confirmation within 24 hours please call.
Award Decided
June 30, 2019
Applicants Notified
by July 15, 2019
Award Announced
August 1, 2019
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Application Vision
In about a page describe what will happen because you earned this award. Write
it as a story looking back from some time in the future—either a few years or a
few decades. Describe what you’ve accomplished, what has happened. To see
what we mean you can read the Endowment Vision included in this packet, in the
previous pages 4 and 5, as an example. We also have previous winners’ visions
posted at daphnezeposteachingaward.org/winners.
The award administrators are looking for a compelling, achievable vision that
shares an abundant spirit of cheese education.
Daphne Zepos Teaching Award
Two Letters of Recommendation
Please have two letters of recommendation written on your behalf from two
individuals. One page each will do. At least one must be from a member of the
American Cheese Society. Ask the writers to send them directly to the Award
Administrator (info@dzta.org) so they remain private.
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