ACS 2010 – Charcuterie Seminar – August 28, 2010
The last seminar The Lady attended at last week’s American Cheese Society conference was an introduction to charcuterie and was moderated by Tyler Hawes, Buyer for Artisanal Premium Cheese. Because cheese and cured meats are often paired, it seemed a natural for the conference. The panel included Herb Eckhouse, owner of LaQuercia Meats located in Norwalk, Iowa. Since 2005,...
La Quercia’s Herb Eckhouse is America’s Prince of Prosciutto (via Good Food Revolution)
The Lady attended a seminar on Charcuterie at last week’s American Cheese Society Conference and Herb Eckhouse was one of the panalists. Here is a great interview with him: by Kristina Groeger The history of salumi is as heavy and dense as a hanging leg of acorn-fed dry-cured prosciutto. For centuries in the glorious days...
Celebrating Our Two-Year Blogiversary – Blogging for The Love of Cheese
It’s hard to believe The Lady and I have been on our cheese adventure for a little more than two years. It’s been a great time; we’ve learned a lot about cheese (but so much more to learn…) and we’ve met lots of other great cheese nurds… to cap the two-year journey, we spent last...
…And the Winners Are…
Best of Show: Uplands Extra Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve… better get your order in fast… only 1000 wheels of this Award-Winning Cheese. When it’s gone… it’s gone. 2nd Place went to our friends, Allison Hooper of Vermont Butter and Cheese for her wonderful Bonnie Bouche. 3rd Place to Spring Brook Farm Tarentaise. Congratulations to all...
Spaulding Gray From the Manse: ACS 2010: Report #6
As much as I wanted to report yesterday, there were some serious, four-legged guests at the “Pets Friendly” Motel in the Suburbs of Seattle that diverted my attention… more on this later… Saturday morning at the ACS 2010 Conference was the end of the seminars. The Lady had two terrific ones to end on a...
Spaulding Gray From the Cheese Bunker: 2010 ACS: Cheesemaking at Beecher’s: Report #4
The alarm went off at 430am and startled the starch out of this Feline Foodie… for a moment I was disoriented; usually the alarm only goes off that early when The Lady is on her way to the cheese mines. Because we are in the Cheese Bunker in the suburbs of Seattle, I was pretty...
Spaulding Gray From the Cheese Bunker: ACS 2010: Report 3
WOW!! The Lady couldn’t stop talking last night about yesterday’s conference: she attended 3 seminars; had lunch with the “cheese swells” and assisted our friend, the lovely Rhonda Gothberg of the lovely Gothberg Farms Goat Milk Cheese at the Meet the Cheesemaker Event. Rhonda not only makes great cheeses but she is also a terrific person and The...
Spaulding Gray, The Feline Foodie, Reports From His ACS 2010 Cheese Bunker… Report #2
So I’m sitting here in the Cheese Bunker hidden somewhere in the suburbs of Seattle and The Lady is hanging out with the “Cheese Swells” at the Seattle “No Pets” Sheraton… something is definitely wrong with this cheese picture… The Lady and The Man just returned from the New Members and First Time Attendees Reception...
Spaulding Gray, The Feline Foodie, Reporting From His 2010 ACS Cheese Bunker… Report #1
Last night, The Lady attended the first “pre-event” of the 2010 ACS Conference. Gordon Edgar read two passages from his book, “Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge” at Sheri Levigne’s Artisan Cheese Shop, Calf & Kid, at the Melrose Place Market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood next to downtown Seattle. A few dozen serious cheese...
