Category: Milk And Diary

In the wake of beloved cheese personality Anne Saxelby’s untimely death, her husband, Patrick Martins, founder of Heritage Foods USA, knew that something needed to be done to continue her work. “Right away I knew we had to do something to keep her memory alive, keep her active

Thanks in part to people being stuck at home during the pandemic, volume sales of ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails increased by 26.4% in 2020 alone, according to IWSR. Another trend that only amplified during the pandemic was cheeseboards. Already popular on Instagram, cheeseboards created by cheesemakers, cheese shops and cheeseboard

California is the number 1 dairy producing state and Wisconsin is right behind as number 2 so it should come as no surprise that both are celebrating cheese with festivals this fall. This is the inaugural year for Art of Cheese Festival in Wisconsin and the 8th year for California’s

Cheese Shops We Love: Fairfield & Greenwich Cheese Company

Location

2090 Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824

Knowledgeable Staff and a Curated Selection of Cheese

Cheesemonger Laura Downey opened Fairfield Cheese Company in 2009 after

Randall Felts of Beautiful Rind dreamed of a sustainable cheese shop that benefited customers, cheesemakers, and, of course, cheesemongers. But he hadn’t expected to open up his own cheese shop or even his own business. 

After falling in love with cheese after working at a farm-to-table California-style restaurant in Birmingham,

Every two years, in mid-September, the small town of Bra, in Northern Italy, trades its habitual tranquility for a festive and tasteful invasion, when for a few days its alleys and squares are filled with people, stalls, and the irresistible smell

The verdant hills near Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest are a sublime spot for the country’s oldest sheep dairy. Vermont Shepherd, situated on 250 acres in rural Putney, has practiced sustainable farming here since 1965, where 135 varieties of grasses and plants provide

Cheese, especially that made by large commercial creameries, is not immune to the inhumane factory farming practices more commonly associated with egg and meat production. Like their slaughterhouse-destined counterparts, dairy goats, sheep and cows can suffer extreme stress due to overcrowding and restrictive housing, the inability to express natural

Editor’s note: Contributor David Phillips recently wrote about flavored cheeses so we asked him to share the story of an artisan producer who makes mostly flavored Cheddars, Beehive Cheese.

Beehive Cheese specializes in rubbed, flavored cheeses and one of very few artisan cheese companies Utah, (the only one headquartered in

Rogue Creamery makes an astounding number of blue cheeses, most of them award winners and some of them like Rogue River Blue, cult favorites. A seasonal blue cheese available only in the spring is Flora Nelle. First introduced in 2011, it was discontinued in 2017 and is back