Cheese consumers who are prepared to honor their favorite cheeses by moving beyond cling film now have a pre-built method for doing this: The Cheese Grotto is a ventilated wood and glass box that fits in your refrigerator with wooden shelves and a moisture tempering clay slab underneath that will allow the ideal storage of unwrapped pieces of cheese.
The Belfast Coop will be presenting a Farm Fresh Cheese Demo with Heather Q at 6pm Wednesday, October 26th held at the Belfast Free Library.
This is a FREE event, and you can sign-up in advance at the registers at the Belfast Coop, or walk-in without registering as long as there is still space available.
Vox.com is reporting on the “Cheese Glut” caused by low dairy prices, a Russian sanctions, and falling dairy demand from developing countries like China. To “use up” this backlog of cheese each American would have to eat 3 additional pounds of cheese per year, over and above the record current average consumption the USDA just reported of 36 pounds of cheese per person…