Chris Ashby is one of the country's most experienced cheese making consultants.  She has been putting on cheese making courses since 1998 and more recently has delivered the cheese making courses at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage. Her courses at Hartingtons were recently featured in the FTs 5best cheese making courses.

Chris is the principal of AB Cheese Making consultancy and lives in the Vale of Belvoir - the heart of stilton country.  Cheese making is in her DNA and she is both an enthusiastic tutor and also incredibly experienced in all aspects of the artisan art of cheese production.

In 2010 she was awarded the Cheese Industry Award by the British Cheese Board and judges at the International Cheese Awards in Nantwich.