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
Fete des Fromages 2019 in New Orleans
Our good friend, Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana has contributed many blog articles over the past 3 years (for which we are very grateful).* Recently, he told us he will be volunteering at New Orleans’s fabulous cheese festival. He will be working at the gate Saturday from 1-4, so be sure to say “hi.” There are still a few slots open for volunteers (click here).
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
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