The American Cheese Society’s annual conference, “ACS 2016: Cheese in the Heartland” runs July 27 to 3o this year in Des Moines, Iowa. This year the Maine Cheese Guild has awarded two members scholarships to attend: Jillian Smitherman who has apprenticed with Appleton Creamery in 2014 and who works there part time, and Jessie Dowling, […]
At our February 2016 the Guild committed to offering at least three ACS Conference Grants for Guild members to attend this year’s American Cheese Society conference in Des Moines, Iowa July 27th through the 30th. The grants would pay for the Early Bird conference fee of around $500, which would be roughly a third of […]
Notes on Water Buffalo Session at ACS Conference 2015 7/31/2015 10AM [photo courtesy of Zhangzhugang through Wikimedia] Quattro Portoni: Water Bufala in Northern Italy? A Transition That Worked! by Bruno Gritti, moderated by Michele Buster 190 million Water Buffalo in the world; less than 1% are in Italy (370,000), 2.9% in Africa, 2.4% elsewhere in […]