Cheesemonger/entrepreneur Steve Jones moving to a new location

Steve Jones, the cheesemonger/entrepreneur who teaches our seminar on retailing artisan cheese, will have new tales to tell at this year’s June seminar — he has closed his four-year-old cheese counter in NW Portland, and plans to open a new, larger location in a different part of town in March. Steve — whose generosity and transparency about his business practices make the seminar uniquely valuable — will be able to relate all the details about his change in business model from the tiny but fabulous counter he ran in a wine shop in a busy business district to being on his own in an upscale residential area. Steve is living the dream of curd nerds everywhere. (April 15 is the deadline for discounted tuition at the seminar, limited to 12 participants.)