Former Appleton Creamery apprentice Louella Hill
MCG Winners were:
Pineland Farms for
Appleton Creamery for
Longfellow Creamery for
Three Maine Cheese Guild members — Appleton Creamery, Longfellow Creamery, and Pineland Farms Creamery — won awards at the 2009 American Cheese Society Conference that just concluded in Austin, TX.
Maine retained the blue ribbon for Feta with Pineland Farm Creamery’s first place award; Appleton Creamery followed up last year’s success by scoring second place again for their Chevre in Grape Leaf in the Aged Goat Cheese category; and a newcomer to the ACS awards honor roll: Longfellow Creamery won third place for their Kenabago Camembert in the Farmhouse category.
Download all the information for all the winners at:
http://www.cheesesociety.org/associations/2382/files/2009%20Awards%20Brochure.pdf
The first annual Bread Fair will be in Skowhegan on Saturday, August 1st, from 10 am to 2 pm. Live music, fired-up ovens producing samples of bread made from Maine grains, and tables offering the accoutrement of bread pleasure and production – books, tools, small farm equipment, cheese, jams, grains, and flour – will invite ever more people to consider the good reasons for supporting local foods.
The Fair will be held in conjunction with the 2009 Kneading Conference in Skowhegan (July 30 and 31st), and the organizers are looking for local cheesemakers who would like to participate in the Fair, which will be free and open to the public.
Contact coordinator Wendy Hebb (wendyhebb@roadrunner.com) before June 22nd if you would like to sign up, or for more information.