OPRAH'S ENDORSEMENT A HOLIDAY GIFT TO BAY AREA CHEESE COMPANY

Inside the giant, funk-smelling aging room, filled to the ceiling with wheels of toma and gouda cheese, Jill Basch scanned her cheese empire and reflected on the latest bit of good fortune to descend on her family business — the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company.

“Twenty-five years ago, I don’t think I ever dreamed that we could be of the size and have the visibility that we do,” Basch said, “to be on Oprah’s Favorite Things list.”

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