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In the garden outside its urban production facility, Perrystead Dairy installed the vending machine as an alternative to a retail counter.

Vending machine snacks just got a refined boost in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia's Perrystead Dairy recently unveiled a highly sophisticated cheese and charcuterie vending machine that's receiving raves — and attracting customers at all hours of the night.

Even as the US dairy industry struggles, small cheesemakers are choosing sustainable farming – and leaving their mark

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A cream cheese shortage has bagel shops scrambling in New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere.

After 15 years in the cheese industry, Yoav Perry has opened Perrystead Dairy, a creamery in Philadelphia. With access to high-quality cows' milk from surrounding counties, a supportive food community, and roads that lead to expanding markets, Perry is creating American originals. With a respect for the past and an interest in creating new cheese profiles, we talk with Perry about urban creameries, advancing American cheesemaking, and starting an urban creamery from scratch.

Jaime Alvarez / jaimephoto.com Yoav Perry is extremely enthusiastic about cheese. You’d have to be to do what he’s doing in Olde Kensington right now: In a reclaimed shipping container inside a raw production space on Hancock Street, Perry is busy separating curds from whey, ladling fresh cheese into molds, and flavoring drinkable yogurts and whey “tonics” with salted caramel and pistachio. With his forthcoming creamery, Perrystead Dairy, Perry will join a robust community of cheese peo...