New Maine Cheese Gets Nat’l Pub

A new Maine cheese from a new Maine cheesemaker — Josh Pond — has gotten a prominent mention in the New York Times food section today. Josh Pond in Whiting began as a blueberry farm, as branched out into other blueberry products (their preserves are also featured in the same article) and also has a small goat herd that provides milk to make “small batches of artisanal raw-milk cheeses.” They’ve now also begun making a cows milk cheese using milk from Tide Mill Farm to make their newest cheese — Beauregarde — “a firm, smooth tomme-style cheese with a blue-gray rind, a fruity aroma and a full-bodied, slightly tangy flavor.”

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Follow-up To NY State Listeria Outbreak

Below are links to additional documents that follow-up on the Listeria outbreak traced to raw milk cheese at Vulto Creamery in Walton, NY. The first is an ACS statement after their Executive Director spoke to the FDA about the resources available on this topic to ACS members. The other is from Janet Fletcher’s excellent cheese blog, Planet Cheese. Janet has some great quotes from leaders in the artisan cheese industry about this issue.