We are currently working on an Italian Style cheeses workshop by Peter Dixon to be held in the Spring of 2011, most likely at State of Maine Cheese Co. in Rockport. And Appleton Creamery has already scheduled a slate of beginning cheesemaking workshops at her creamery beginning in January. What other workshops would you like to see us organize? Some of the ideas we came up with at our Annual Meeting were:
- Blue Cheese
- Smear Rind / Washed Rind Cheeses
- The Art of Affinage
- Making Your Own Cultures
Post a comment with your own suggestions.
Our Annual Meeting took place at the State of Maine Cheese Co. in Rockport where we re-elected Anne Bossi, Deb Hahn, Beth Whitman, and Mary Belding to the board. We also set our meeting schedule for 2011 (see the updated list on the Guild page). In non-official business we discussed Open Creamery Day successes (publicity was good this year; over 500 people visited Pineland Farms in Gray this year!), various fund raising ideas, the response to our Letter to the Governor from the Commissioner of Agriculture, future workshops, an expanded presence at the 2011 Common Ground Country Fair, and the fact that the 2011 American Cheese Society conference will take place in Montreal next year, the closest it’s been to Maine since Burlington, VT in 2007. Best of all we got to see the cheese harp that Cathe’s husband Frank made for Appleton Creamery.