New Year Cheese Boards

Whether you're throwing, attending or crashing a party, one of the best things to serve or bring with you this time of year is a cheese ...

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Check it: 10 Wisconsin Cheeses to Try in 2013

With just 3-1/2 days between us and the descent of the New Year's Eve Blingy Ball, we bloggers have started writing end-of-the-year to...

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LaClare Farms to Build New Farmstead Creamery

An artist's rendering of the new LaClare Farms storefront. Katie Hedrich, the reigning U.S. Champion Cheesemaker (and 2010 Wisconsin Che...

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The New Age of American Aging Cellars

Photo by Uriah Carpenter Eight years ago at a Wisconsin cheese industry meeting, a presenter who had studied cheesemaking in Europe used the...

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La-Von Farmhouse Brie

Photo by Uriah Carpenter A former Wisconsin dairy goat producer, yogurt maker and specialty cheesemaker is in the process of reinventing him...

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Bucky Badger Cheese Curds

This weekend was homecoming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and while our beloved Badgers lost the big football game in overtime, we...

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Marieke Gouda Goes to Hollywood

Photo courtesy http://hollandsfamilycheese.foodoro.com/ Word is that a Wisconsin cheese will make its Hollywood debut in an episode of CSI:N...

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The Downtown Madison Deep-Fried Cheese Curd Challenge

Just like Friday fish fries, Jell-O salads, and beer brats, deep-fried cheese curds are uniquely Wisconsin. Once relegated to county fairs, ...

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Fromagination Celebrates 5 Years with 80 Pounds of Pleasant Ridge Reserve

What started out as the little-store-that-could and morphed into one of the nation's premiere cut-to-order cheese shops will celebrate i...

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Purple Door Ice Cream

An artisan ice cream previously only available in select restaurants and specialty stores has opened its own storefront in the Walker's ...

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A Tour of Artisan Cheeses in the Driftless Region

This past week, I did what anyone who needs an excuse to go see some of her favorite cheesemakers would do: I organized a two-day artisan ch...

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The End of the Dairy Business Innovation Center

On Sept. 30, a simple idea that started in a break room over a frozen dinner and evolved into one of the most effective and efficient dairy ...

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Next Up on the Bucket List: Cheeses of Northern Italy

It started with a bucket list: visit France before I turned 40 and taste a raw milk Camembert. After checking that baby off my list last fal...

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Wisconsin Cheese Mart to offer 28-Year Old Cheddar

Twenty pounds of 28-year-old Cheddar – presumed to be the oldest commercial Cheddar ever verified and offered for sale in America -- will hi...

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Whiskey & Cheese Geeks

Whisky is not my thing. At least I never thought so until last night. It turns out whisky, when presented with a first-rate storyteller in t...

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Deer Creek Cheddar

When a pair of never-heard-of-before "Deer Creek" cheeses nearly swept the highly-coveted Aged Cheddar category at the American Ch...

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Wisconsin Dairy Goat Industry Drooping as Drought Lingers

The severe drought affecting southern Wisconsin may have a severe impact on the number of dairy goat farms left in the state by year's e...

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ACS Best in Show 2012

In a sign that mixed-milk cheeses are slowly and surely becoming American artisanal cheesemakers' claim to fame, Beecher's Handmade ...

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