It seems to us that not a shred of the life our grandparents lived remains. But this isn't true, at least not at La Gloria, an artisan cheese factory in Gran Canaria. It doesn't matter that they've won international awards like the Super Gold at the World Cheese Awards and that their cheeses sell out as soon as they're finished. Here, there's a system that goes way back and is still in operation: they're sharecroppers.