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 ci...
Cheshire Cheese Festival July 7th, 2018 in Western MA
It’s a party! From Best Places 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 wa...
Karen Kushner with some of her cheeses Red Gable Cheese Workshops is located in Sparta, Tennessee-a small community located on the scenic Upper Cumberland plateau approximately an hour and a half...
One page from Everfest.com 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 ev...
MA Cheese Guild Annual Meeting, 2018
Since it’s beginning in 2011,* the MA Cheese Guild has hosted a wide variety of cheese tastings, classes and the very popular Massachusetts Cheese Festival, held the first weekend in November in S...
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 (on the 15th), we sco...
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. ...
Free Food Safety Course for Cheese Makers
FREE until December 31, 2017 ! We sell supplies here at New England Cheese Making Supply Co. (not cheese), but when I received an e-mail about a free food safety course, I decided to take it. It’...
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 (on the 15th), we’re ...
New Online Cheese Making Course!
Our friend, Kate Johnson is a bundle of energy! She raises goats at her Briar Gate Farm and she teaches cheese making classes at her school, The Art of Cheese in Longmont, Colorado. She also co-...
Certifying Home Cheese Makers!
Kate Johnson with Bronze Level cheese makers We first interviewed Kate Johnson, the founder of The Art of Cheese , a school for cheese making, in 2014 when she sent us her recipe for Chocolate Ri...
A Volunteer’s Dream Come True! If you love cheese, this is the volunteer opportunity you have been waiting for. Of course, you might have to wait a little longer than you wish because the word is ...
Do you think you might want to be a professional cheese maker? Maybe you’ve taken workshops and read books, but now you want to know what it’s really like in the “real world…” It might be time t...
I don’t know about you, but I can’t keep up with all the cheeses in the world! I just don’t have time to check them all out, so I rely on the competitions to guide me. I haven’t gone wrong once ...
Little Tidbits to Chew On - 002
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 (on the 15th), we’re ...
Little Tidbits to Chew On - 001
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 (on the 15th), we’re ...
What's a Beer and Cheese Walk?
Nancy Charbonneau, Manager of the Cancer Connection Thrift Store and her fiancee, Mike Case (who happens to be my brother) enjoy a cheese plate at The Foundry in Northampton, MA From what I can t...
Have You Tasted Pleasant Ridge Reserve?
When our official cheesemonger, Marc Freshman from Murray’s picked Pleasant Ridge Reserve to be the first prize in our 2016 Cheese Give-A-Whey, we were thrilled.* We had seen it win Best of Show at...
Massachusetts Cheese Festival, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015 1-5pm, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street We are SO happy about the activities the Massachusetts Cheese Guild has been hosting! We have k...
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 Woo...
2015 American Cheese Society Conference
The 2015 American Cheese Society Conference was in Providence, Rhode Island this year (the 32nd annual conference). NECS almost always has a sponsor’s table , so we can meet cheese makers and reta...
The Big E Gold Medal Cheese Competition, 2014
Worst picture ever taken of Elena Hovagimian! There are very few regional cheese competitions held in this country for one very good reason-it’s a LOT of hard work! That’s why it’s amazi...
Volunteer at the American Cheese Society Conference 2014!
It’s time to enlist! The Cheese Guard needs you! If you’re going to the American Cheese Society Conference in Sacramento, California from July 23rd – August 2nd, or if you just want to volunteer ...
A Cheese Making Demo in Southern Vermont
Laine Crandall showed how to milk a goat Last year around this time, I posted an article about a goat show I attended at the Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association, located in Marlboro, V...
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