Allison Lakin of  Lakin’s Gorges Cheese in Waldoboro, Maine won a Best of Class at the World Championship Cheese Contest for her Rockweed, a soft-ripened, cow’s milk square with a line of seaweed in the center.

“You’ve heard of terroir, the taste of the land—this is meroir, the taste of the sea,” says Lakin.⁠ Learn more here.