“Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment” March 14th is a big day in Burgdorf, Switzerland. That’s the day when a team of judges (expert cheese tasters) will determine whether music played in the town’s famous aging cave for 8 months had an effect on the taste of it’s Emmentals.* This is not a joke! It’s an actual experiment being conducted at Kasehaus K3
Judging at the New England Regional Cheese Competition – 2017
This is the eighth year for the cheese competition at the Eastern States Exposition (known as the Big E). The Big E starts in September, but the judging for the competition is always in August. (If this feels like deja-vu to you, it’s because I posted articles about this competition in 2014 (click here) and in 2016 (click here).) I helped out with the judging,
Ron Schmidt in Gainesville, Florida
Ron Schmidt, Professor Emeritus (Retired) at the University of Florida in Gainesville is truly an expert in the making of cheese. He is also the first and only judge in cheese competitions we have ever interviewed. He was once a judge for the American Cheese Society Competition, the most prestigious competition in the US. We jumped at the chance to ask him about it: How