American Cheese Month 2013: The #curdwise31 Kick Off

October 1, 2013

It’s October, the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, American Cheese Month is here, and we’re not just excited about this because it coincides with Jill’s birthday month, but also because, this year, it serves as the prelude to our five-year blogiversary. So we’re counting down with 31 essential American cheeses — drawn from […]

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Rivertown, Many Fold Farm, Georgia {Southern Cheese Month}

September 27, 2013

{Psst …. last chance, have you purchased your tickets for this weekend’s Southern Artisan Cheese Festival already? Yes? Good.} We’ve shared a lot of Georgia cheese love in the form of Sweet Grass Dairy’s Green Hill over the years, but there are other up and coming cheesemakers from the Peach State that we need to […]

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Capriole Farms’ Wabash Cannonball, Indiana {Southern Cheese Month}

September 20, 2013

So, a funny thing about Indiana. I always had considered it to be part of the Midwest – after all, it’s due east of Illinois, which is decidedly Midwestern. But when I was in college, my parents moved to Indianapolis, and our accents often prompted the locals to say, “Oh, you’re from up north.” Apparently, […]

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2013 Minnesota Cheese Festival

September 17, 2013

I know Colleen’s sights are already turned south, but up north, we had another cheese festival to enjoy this weekend. The second annual Minnesota Cheese Festival took place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds over two days to prevent the long lines that plagued last year’s festival, and from all appearances, the event went smoothly. I […]

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Gray’s Chapel, Goat Lady Dairy, North Carolina {Southern Cheese Month}

September 14, 2013

Even though we can’t make it to the Southern Cheese Festival this year, we thought we’d celebrate our own virtual fest with a few featured cheeses from the region. If you’re going to the festival, here’s a new one to look for: Gray’s Chapel from Goat Lady Dairy. Goat Lady Dairy was founded in 1995 […]

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Big Woods Blue and a Back-to-School Giveaway for the Kids

September 10, 2013

I’m a summer baby to the core — with a late August birthday and having spent my childhood on the West Coast, I am absolutely incapable of facing down Labor Day without getting in a final beach trip. (We made a day-trip to the Delaware shore.) But I have to say, the second week of […]

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Southern Artisan Cheese Festival, September 28 in Nashville, Tennessee

August 30, 2013

Summer may be winding down, but we’ve got one more road trip recommendation for you: the 3rd Annual Southern Artisan Cheese Festival in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, September 28, 2013. Southern cheese is hot right now — from that gorgeous feature in Garden & Gun magazine to the cheese counters of NYC — which is […]

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Quick Takes: MN Cheese News

August 29, 2013

It’s been an exciting summer for the Minnesota cheese community, with cheesemakers Keith Adams (Alemar Cheese Company), Jodi Ohlsen Read and Steven Read (Shepherd’s Way Farms) and Jeff Jirik (Caves at Faribault) taking home three awards from the American Cheese Society Annual Conference and Competition. The fun won’t stop when the weather gets cooler, though. […]

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Arethusa Farm’s Cry Baby Swiss, Connecticut

August 22, 2013

While at ACS, I managed to join the hordes of cheese lovers across Capitol Square at Madison’s fromage favorite, Fromagination. You know, because I hadn’t eaten enough cheese at the conference and at all the parties and dinners we’d been attending all week. However, I couldn’t necessarily buy all the cheese I had been tasting […]

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Ancient Heritage Dairy’s Hannah, Oregon

August 19, 2013

As you might expect, there was no lack of cheese at meals during the American Cheese Society Conference. Breakfast, in particular, featured a glut of luscious, creamy specimens to spread on a croissant or roll. But one lunch session, sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Oregon, came with a special bonus – a box full […]

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