Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Cheese
Cheese is one product that can develop its own tourist niche. Cheese advo-
cates, like wine advocates, have their own clubs to discover more about
cheese and are prepared to travel to discover new and exciting cheeses.
Cheese clubs include:
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The Smelly Cheese Club:
www.smellycheeseclub.com.au
Phone apps have also been designed purely for cheese connoisseurs:
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Ask the cheesemonger
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Cheese'wich
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Cheeseman
There are festivals exclusive to cheese:
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Cheese Fest is held in South Australia every year and attracts
15,000
cheese lovers;
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The Festival of Cheese, American Cheese Society: featuring over 1500
cheese entries in more than
100
categories;
•
California Artisan Cheese Festival: the California Artisan Cheese Festival
is held annually in March in Petaluma;
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Vermont Cheesemaker's Festival: Vermont is America's top cheese-making
state per capita;
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Oregon Cheese Festival: the festival is held at Rogue Creamery in southern
Oregon;
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Great British Cheese Festival: over 400 cheeses made from cow, goat, sheep
and water buffalo milk. The event is held in late September, and locations vary;
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Bra Cheese Festival: the biennial Bra Cheese Festival attracts cheese
lovers and professionals from all over the world. Held every other
September outside Turin in Piedmont, Italy;
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Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival: on the first weekend of June, cheese
fans travel to the town of Little Chute;
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The Great Canadian Cheese Festival: first held in 2010, this June cele-
bration is held in Prince Edward County, Ontario;
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Seattle Cheese Festival: every May, held at Seattle's world famous Pike
Place Market;
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Amish Country Cheese Festival: this Illinois festival takes place on the
American Labor Day weekend.
There are even lists for the top ten most awful smelling cheeses in the world.
On-farm classes are available showing guests how to make cheese and
serve cheese, for example how to put the perfect cheese board together. The
experts
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tell us the perfect cheese board includes:
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Holy Goat, La Luma;
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Le Conquerant, Camembert;
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Pont l'Eveque;
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Roy des Vallees;
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Bleu de Basque.
