Win a Trip to France: Comté Scholarship for Certified Cheese Professionals®
Are you a Certified Cheese Professional®? If so, get ready to embark on the cheese journey of a lifetime, courtesy of the Comté Cheese Association. The association announces its eleventh annual Comté Scholarship for American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professionals® (ACS CCPs). This exclusive scholarship opportunity is open to all cheese experts who have passed […]
Ribera y Rueda: Food Friendly Wines From Spain
Win a Trip to Spain! Find these wines at these fine retailers culture is excited to be partnering with Ribera y Rueda in launching a pilot program to support cheese and wine retailers around the country—which is expected to expand dramatically in the coming months. These high-value wines from Spain pair perfectly with a wide variety of cheeses […]
Historic Dairy Cooperative Turns into a Boutique Hotel
For tiny Paoli, Wisconsin, the $11.2 million project to transform a historic cooperative dairy into a 21,000-square-foot restaurant, café, eight-room boutique hotel, and creamery, is remarkable for its grand scale. Even more remarkable: Seven Acre Dairy Company co-proprietors Nic Mink and Danika Laine are doing a very brave thing. They’re refusing to serve cheddar. “Our […]
9 Farmstead Creameries Where You Can Spend the Night
This past week we had the opportunity to tour Tomales Farmstead Creamery as a part of the California Artisan Cheese Festival. We got to cuddle with baby goats, watch a milking, and taste plenty of cheese. We also had the opportunity to peek inside their gorgeous modern farmhouse, which is available to rent on Airbnb […]
Regions to Watch: Austria
If you love cheese, you know the Alps—the 750-mile-long stretch of peaks crosses dairy lodestars like France, Italy, and Switzerland, and it pretty much goes without saying that your local cheese shop carries Alpine greats Comté, fontina, and Gruyère. But until recently, turophiles have been sleeping on the range’s vast eastern half—namely, Austria. Known more […]
Regions to Watch: India
Indian cheesemakers are putting their stamp on the cheese world. Read about innovations, accomplishments, and whats to come in this burgeoning industry.
Regions to Watch: New Zealand
Of the top 10 culinary reasons to visit New Zealand, artisan cheese sits below rare native Manuka honey, above eating cultivated kiwifruit, and right on par with sipping wines that don’t make it out of the country at the same rate as Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc does. To understand the cheese landscape of this South Pacific […]
Ribera del Duero and Rueda: Your Next Wine Country Destination
It is often said that wine is life, but in Ribera del Duero and Rueda, it is more. Wine represents the roots in the soil and the root of the soul. Each glass made here represents the area’s ancient past and its slow, steady march toward modern winemaking. Castles dominate the landscape in these regions, […]
For Locally Sourced Pizza, Head To A Farm
Written by Kristine Hansen Photos courtesy of Millsap Farms It’s no secret that autumn is harvest time for vegetables. But in Wisconsin and other states where farming is a way of life, it’s also when some farms host pizza nights where ingredients, including cheese, and even the flour to make the pizza dough is sourced […]
A Journey Through Italy’s Northern Cheese Country
As the birthplace of pizza and pesto, Italy lays claim to some of the most well-known food in the world. Just like Italian cuisine, which varies widely from region to region—think spaghetti alle vongole in Naples and spaghetti carbonara in Rome—the same can be said for Italian cheese. There are more than 2,500 traditional kinds […]
