This list is brought to you by cheesemaking.com with our best wishes for a happy time! There’s nothing more fun than a cheese festival, with awesome cheeses to sample and new friends to be made. We want to be sure you know where they are in time to make your plans. For festival promoters: The American Cheese Society has posted a Cheese Festival Planning Guide
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
New England Regional Cheese Competition 2019
In 2007, Elena Hovagimian was working for Donna Woolam, the Director of Agriculture at The Eastern States Exposition (The Big E). They thought it would be fun (!) to start a cheese competition at the fair. It was a daunting effort, but Elena began collecting all the information she could. She even went to the prestigious American Cheese Society Competition where John Greeley graciously showed
Home Cheese Making Competitions
It’s a wonderful idea and, yet, it seems to be the impossible dream. Why is it a great idea? Cheese making is basically a solitary pursuit and local contests are a great way for cheese makers to get to know each other. Contests provide a way for cheese makers to get feedback from judges (the kind of feedback they don’t get from family and friends).
Wine & Cider Competitions at The Big E, 2018
Behind the scenes at the judging In past years, I have volunteered at the cheese competition* at The Big E (Eastern States Exposition), but this was the first time I volunteered at the wine and cider competitions which were held at the same time. It was a totally different experience and every bit as fascinating. How is it possible for the judges to know as much
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
Farm Dayz 2015 in Dimondale, Michigan
In October, 2012, we did an interview with Tiffany Rich of Woodspryte Farm in Dimondale, Michigan (click here). At that time, she had just completed her second yearly farm “open house” called Woodspryte Farms’s Family Farm Dayz. By the next year, 2013, the event had grown so popular that she had set up a committee to help her run it and she had moved it