An African Cheese Company Turns To The U.S

New York, NY — Brown's Cheeses is something of a multinational corporation on a tiny scale: It sells brie, mozzarella and other European-style cheeses made by East Africans, it's owned by a Kenyan couple of British descent, and their daughter and her American-born husband will start running the company this year.

Its ambitions are far-reaching, too, and brought Brown's Cheeses to New York this summer for the Fancy Food Show.

Andrew Stirling, the American, said his wife Delia's parents started the company in Limuru, Kenya, in the highlands north of Nairobi, almost by accident 30 years ago, the byproduct of a craving. "They started making cheese out of their kitchen because they couldn't buy cheese that they liked, and started giving it as Christmas gifts," he said. "And those same people started requesting it and became their first customers."

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