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Madelyn Varela
Madelyn is a 23-year-old cheesemonger from Cleveland, Ohio. She has garnered almost 300,000 followers on her page @cheezytalkwithmadelyn, across both TikTok and Instagram. She provides easily digestible video summaries of cheese with an approachable and non-snobby ideology. After years of learning and making cheese, she is now learning the retail part of the industry as the lead cheesemonger at a large specialty grocery store. She has been in the cheese and dairy industry her entire adult life and became a cheese maker right out of high school.
When she finds herself taking a break from slinging cheese, filming videos of cheese, eating cheese, or anything else cheese, she enjoys cooking and going to museums. The support from her two cats, family, and friends is what makes it all happen!