Virginia Cider Week 2013

November 15, 2013

The 2nd annual Virginia Cider Week kicks off today, November 15, and continues through the 24th. (Yes, there’s too much drinking involved to contain it to a typical 7-day week.) Events are scheduled all around the Commonwealth, culminating in the Cider Fest at Castle Hill Cider in Kewsick, Va., next Saturday, Nov. 23. As the […]

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Murray’s and Jasper Hill Farm’s Greensward, Vermont

November 7, 2013

Colleen’s not the only one enjoying a bark-wrapped beauty this week. Not only do I have a Rush Creek in my refrigerator (thanks, Song, for holding one for me last week!), I got a wonderful birthday surprise recently in the form of a Murray’s delivery box. My dear sisters (with some guidance from Colleen) sent […]

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Sona Creamery Coming to Pennsylvania Ave.

November 6, 2013

Here’s some exciting news for the nation’s capital: the latest cheese establishment coming to Washington, DC, won’t just be another retail counter/wine bar, but will actually make cheese on site. Sona Creamery and Wine Bar is currently under construction on Pennsylvania Avenue, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. While owners Conan & Genevieve O’Sullivan are transplants […]

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Rush Creek Reserve, 2013 Release

November 5, 2013

American Cheese Month may have come to a close, but November brings exciting cheese news of its own — the annual release of Rush Creek Reserve, from Uplands Cheese Company, Wisconsin. Cheesemaker and new owner Andy Hatch created this spruce-wrapped cheese as a way to use the farm’s milk after their cows had moved from […]

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Caromont Farm: A Kickstarter Success Story

October 25, 2013

As y’all know, we spent a week cheesing it up in Madison, Wisconsin, at the 30th Annual American Cheese Society conference this summer. Our time there wasn’t all play, though, as I also moderated a panel on crowd-funding in the cheese industry with Kickstarter alumni Gail Hobbs-Page of Caromont Farm and Carolyn Stromberg of Righteous […]

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Baetje Farms’ Fleur de la Vallee, Missouri

October 22, 2013

Despite the fact that Missouri is due south of Minnesota, with just Iowa in between, it’s odd that I don’t see cheeses from that state very often around here. But in the post-ACS fervor that gets the cheese community excited about the winning cheeses, I was pleasantly surprised to come across several selections from renowned […]

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Willoughby, Jasper Hill Farm, Vermont

October 16, 2013

While we’re reliving some of our highlights from the past five years over on Facebook, for our #curdwise31 American Cheese Month celebration, we’re still seeking out new cheeses to share with you. Well, sort of new cheeses. Today’s cheese was perhaps my favorite new cheese of 2012. Yes, last year. So why has it taken […]

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Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival, October 12

October 9, 2013

Yep, we’ve got another cheese fest to point you towards this weekend: the Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival will be held Saturday, October 12, at the Seattle Design Center. We get the chance to dabble in Pacific Northwest cheeses every once in a while, but for some hot new cheeses to seek out we turned to […]

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Lazy Lady Farm’s Tomme Delay, Vermont

October 8, 2013

During the second week of American Cheese Month, we’re tipping our hat to the goat ladies – the pioneers of goat-cheese making whose names are whispered in reverent tones among the cheese community. Names like Keehn, Schad and Fondiller – by which we mean Laini Fondilier of Lazy Lady Farm in Vermont. Colleen was lucky […]

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Point Reyes Bay Blue, California

October 4, 2013

Starting our 31 days of essential American cheeses with two blues — as it happens, Bayley Hazen was followed by St. Pete’s Select in our very first posts — led us down a penicillium-laden path for the rest of this first week of American Cheese Month. For your Friday afternoon enjoyment, we offer Point Reyes […]

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