In 2019, we had the pleasure of interviewing Vivian – Vivian Lucero in Otis, Oregon. She is a master cheesemaker, gourmet cook and gardener. Her cheese looks fabulous. Unfortunately, she lives on the opposite coast from us so, we can only imagine how good it tastes. A few examples: Soon after we posted her interview, Vivian shared a recipe with us – Vivian Lucero’s Whey
Follow Up – Fete des Fromages, 2019
Last month our good friend Bob Albers,* who lives in Mandeville, Louisianna told us about the fabulous New Orleans Fete des Fromages and we posted the schedule, etc. for the November event (click here). Bob volunteered at the festival and while he was there, he took a lot of pictures. When he got home, he wrote this review for us: Fete des Fromages (a wonderful
Cheese Festival & Cows’ Ball in Slovenia
We love hearing from Mariana Veiga because she has traveled all around the world and she tells us about the fabulous places she has been. Who could forget her trip to Mongolia in 2017?! (click here) Now she lives in Slovenia, a country with a cheese culture we didn’t know much about until Mariana sent us this story: Cheese Making in Slovenia, the Sunny Side
The Fabulous Cheshire Cheese Fest 2018
Ricki (The Cheese Queen) and I had a great time at the second annual Cheshire Cheese Fest on July 7th. We had a booth where we sold our new kid’s book (Say Cheese!) and several other products. It was a beautiful day and we met a lot of future cheese makers, as well as some folks who are already masters. History The cool thing about
Cheshire Cheese Festival July 7th, 2018 in Western MA
It’s a party! If the second annual Cheshire Cheese Festival is anything like the first festival, it will be well worth a trip to western MA for the day. Last year’s festival was a huge success and we predict it will get bigger and better every year. Why cheese? This festival is based on a fascinating historic event, described in Wikipedia: Cheshire was incorporated in
Organizing a Cheese Festival
I was recently at a meeting of the Massachusetts Cheese Guild and a young man from western MA (Justin Kruszyna) spoke to us about the Cheshire Cheese Festival, a new event he had organized last summer. It occurred to me that there might be someone reading this blog who would like to do the same thing. (It goes without saying that these festivals are good
Connecticut Celebrates Artisan Cheese in a Big Whey!
Brian Civitello This past weekend, the Coventry Regional Farmer’s Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead hosted the fabulous Connecticut Cheese Festival. The farmer’s market alone is always fabulous, with all kinds of interesting vendors, but this particular weekend it was enhanced by cheese classes, demonstrations, pairing seminars and the wildly popular cheese rolling contest. We were there, too! Our friend, Brian Civitello had invited