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Jenny Zink has expanded Shea Cheese, Phoenix's only dedicated cut-to-order cheese shop, adding a cookbook store inside the lounge adjacent to the main retail floor at 10880 N. 32nd St.

The new section spotlights Arizona authors and feeds directly into Zink's monthly potluck-cookbook club. The lounge also serves as event space for game nights and community gatherings, layering programming onto what began as a straightforward retail cheese case when the shop opened in 2022.

Phoenix Magazine, which profiled the shop this week, quoted Zink on her founding intent: "My goal was to be the neighborhood cheese shop. We live in this neighborhood, I love this neighborhood. We wanted it to be where people come and make core memories."

Beyond cheese, priced at $22 to $44 per pound, the shop carries chocolates, crackers, products from Hayden Flour Mills, high-end cheese accessories, and makers-made gifts. A deluxe cheese tasting set runs $75. Featured cookbooks on the shelf include Jennifer Caraway's The Joy Bus Cookbook: Meals That Matter and Claudette Zepeda's Cooking the Borderlands: Spice and Smoke Between Mexico and the States, each priced at $35.

AZ Central reported the shop's original opening in November 2022, noting it filled a gap in the Valley's retail food landscape. The shop's phone is 602-666-0431.

No timeline for additional expansion has been announced.

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  1. Phoenix Magazine retrieved 04/09/2026 21:46
  2. AZ Central retrieved 04/09/2026 21:46
  3. The Joy Bus Cookbook: Meals That Matter (official site) retrieved 04/09/2026 21:46

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