Success Story: The number of retail cheese makers in Maine doubled in the last year, the fastest growth rate in the country – click here New Video: If you want to step up your chevre by molding it into a cylinder, here’s a short little video demonstration from Hammock Haven Farm – click here Another Success Story: The oldest artisan cheese company in South Dakota,
Why Butter Sculptures?
It’s fair season and all across the country there are butter sculptures for our viewing pleasure. It’s a “thing.” They’re kind of a fun thing, and kind of a weird thing, so I wanted to do a little research on the subject … Overview State fairs are probably the biggest patrons of the art. The Ohio State Fair, for example, goes all out. This year,
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This fall, Cowgirl Creamery (makers of award winning artisan cheeses) will be selling clabbered cottage cheese. Instead of adding cream to the curds, they will be adding creme fraiche. People who have tasted it say it’s amazing! (click here) This month’s easy recipe comes from The Whoot: Banana Bread Filled With Cream Cheese (Oh yeah!) Have you tried the new cheese called Bone Char Square?
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Did you bid? Kraft held an auction on eBay where you could bid on having your father’s head sculpted out of Kraft cheese. Bids closed at over $2000 each(!) and the top 5 bidders were awarded the sculptures. Funds benefited Feeding America. An article in our local newspaper about our founder, Ricki Carroll was picked up by the Associated Press, so you can read it,
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
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Who else but Martha Stewart would explain to us how to wrap goat cheese with edible flowers? All the cheese you can eat! The next Cheesemonger Invitational will be in Brooklyn, NY June 30th. Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Oregon has a golf course where they are using goats as caddies! Goatgrams – While we’re on the subject of Oregon, did you know you can
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We love this simple new recipe for Lemon Cream Cheese Bars at The Whoot. Is Cheese Healthy? That’s a complicated question explained simply in this article by Lisa Drayer at CNN. A restaurant in Berlin, Germany just broke the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Variety of Cheese on a Pizza.” A restaurant chain in the UK (Nandos) has added Halloumi Sticks & Dip to it’s menu.
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A tidbit is a little piece of something BIG and that something is the big, big world of cheese. We know you’re kinda busy making your own “fabulous fromage,” so, every month (around the 15th), we scour the Web for you, picking out new items of interest and giving you the links. If we missed something, let us know at info@cheesemaking.com or in the comments