Author of 10 cookbooks and former feature writer for Emeril Lagasse, Chef Judy Gilliard will host a seminar and VIP Wisconsin Cheese table at the Omaha Riverfront Wine Festival on Sunday, August 29, 2010, beginning at 3:00 p.m. Chef Judy is currently an ambassador for Wisconsin Cheese.  Last year, "Judy a la carte" joined the team of Three Eagles Communications to bring its very successful show to Lincoln, Nebraska, which airs weekdays from 10-11 AM on KFOR 1240am. She also syndicates a 1-minute feature called Courage in the Kitchen, designed to give listeners quick and easy tips to make the kitchen a fun place to enter. Enjoy your time with Judy during this memorable exploration through Wisconsin Cheese.

All featured cheeses, including American Grana, CreamyGorg, Fresh Mozzarella and Crescenza-Stracchino, will be provided by BelGioioso Cheese, located in Denmark, WI.  For more information go to www.riverfrontwinefestival.com.

 

The Festival of Flavors will showcase Wisconsin products, local goods and culinary artisans, Wisconsin wineries and cheese producers, plus present an expo of the healthful aspects of food and fitness.

Celebrate the Taste! Two Big Days!

• 50+ booths to savor the taste
• Sample award-winning Wisconsin cheeses
• Sample wines from Wisconsin's finest wineries
• "Chefs' Ethnic Tasting Tables"
• Meet restaurateurs, artisan cheese makers, wine makers and experts
• Receive an eco-friendly bag and souvenir wine glass for adults
• Drawings for incredible prizes
• Much more!

Saturday, August 28: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, August 29:  11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Park and General Festival Admission… FREE

Jaclyn Stuart and Jeannette Hurt, authors of the recently published The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine and Food Pairing, will be presenting a wine and cheese tasting class and book signing at Drinks Over Dearborn on August 17, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.  Jaclyn is a certified sommelier and wine distributor, and Jeanette is an expert in all things cheese, having previously authored The Cheeses of Wisconsin: A Culinary Travel Guide.

 

Wine & Dine Wisconsin Cheese Sponsor The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board proudly presents a meet and greet tasting and cheese education event with the highly esteemed Wisconsin cheesemakers and cheese experts:

• Sample Award-Winning Cheeses
• Learn about the craft and artistry behind cheese making
• Learn about entertaining at home with Wisconsin cheeses

Meet cheese makers and cheese experts from:

• Sugar Brook Farms
• Roth Kase
• Carr Valley Cheese
• Holland's Family Cheese
• Crave Brothers Farmstead
• Sartori Foods

Tickets $10.00 per person. Order tickets now!

Wisconsin Cheese will join R. Hirt Distributors at Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant & Brewery on August 10, 2010, for a chef competition using using Wisconsin Cheese in a dish paired with a micro beer.  The event will go from 4:00 - 8:00 PM.  Chef Michael Symon will be a guest judge. 

 

Join Barrie Lynn - the Cheese Impresario - on Sunday, August 8, at the Waterfront Hotel next to Miss Pearl's Jam House Restaurant, where she will be pairing Wisconsin artisanal cheeses with a vast array of rum and rum cocktails.  Just bring your libation to her table and she will guide you to the perfect cheese to pair with your drink!

 

On Friday, August 6, Barrie Lynn - The Cheese Impresario, and San Francisco Chef Holly Rhoades Le Du, will be making Barrie Lynn’s famous Grilled Cheese Sandwich at Bloomingdales on Market Street.  This sandwich, which was an award-winner at the Los Angeles Grilled Cheese Invitational, and perfectly named OOOOHHHH!, is an unusual version of a sweet savory combination.  It’s grilled with Wisconsin artisanal blue veined cheese with a layer of nut brittle inside.  This is one of those knock your socks off sandwiches!

 

Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation® Denver will take place on Sunday, July 18, at Mile High Station.  Take advantage of this opportunity to sample the finest foods, spirits and wine from some of Denver’s most recognized culinary experts and noted restaurants.  Sampling Wisconsin Cheeses from BelGioioso Cheese, Carr Valley Cheese, Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese and Emmi-Roth Kase will be 2010-2011 WMMB Chef Ambassador Jorge Miguel de le Torre, Dean of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, and 2004-2005 WMMB Chef Ambassador Goose Sorensen, Executive Chef/Owner of Solera Restaurant.

This year’s beneficiaries are Operation Frontline Colorado and the Colorado Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.

Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation Denver is the premier culinary benefit that raises critical funds needed to end childhood hunger in Denver and across America.   Tickets for Taste of the Nation Denver are $75 and can be purchased by calling 1-877-26-TASTE or visiting DenverTaste.org. One hundred percent of ticket sales support Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger.

Jaclyn Stuart and Jeannette Hurt, authors of the recently published The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine and Food Pairing, will be at the Thief Wine Bar, 400 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, to present a variety of wines and cheeses and discuss what works well together, what doesn't and why. Jaclyn is a certified sommelier and a local wine distributor.  Jeanette is an expert in all things cheese, having previously authored The Cheeses of Wisconsin: A Culinary Travel Guide. Copies of their book will be available for purchase. The wines & cheeses will be:

•Red Head Studios 2009 "Yard Dog White", South Australia, with Carr Valley Benedictine Cheese
•Bieler Pere et Fils 2009 Rose, Coteaux d' Aix-en-Provence France, withWidmer's 5-Year Aged Cheddar
•Niepoort Dry White Port, Portugal, with Sartori SarVecchio Parmesan
•Barrel Monkeys 2008 Shiraz, McLaren Vale Australia, with Hook's Blue Paradise

 
Cost of the tasting is $15. Seatings are at 5, 6:15, and 7:30 p.m. RSVPs are required; a credit card is required to secure your reservation. (If you call to cancel by 2 p.m. the day of the tasting, your card will not be charged. If you are on the wait list, we'll notify you by 2 p.m. if space has become available.)  For more information go to www.thiefwine.com.

 

Friday Night, June 25th 5-11:00pm

• Audacious Beers on Tap
• Try a four pack Sampler
• Live music featuring TBD at 9:30pm
• Great grilled food
• Hartland's Hometown Celebration Fireworks

Saturday, June 26th 3-11:00pm

• Premier Beer and Cheese Tasting $40. 4-6:30pm
• Featuring 6 flights of renowned Beers from New Glarus Brewing and Cheeses from award winning Carr Valley
• Meet Brewer and Cheesemaker
• Limited to 120 attendees
• Audacious Raffle and Auction Prize winners announced at 6:30pm
  

The Taste of Wisconsin is a craft beer and cheese tasting event featuring only products made in Wisconsin. There will be over 100 Wisconsin beers and over 60 Wisconsin Cheeses to taste!

$20.00 early bird ticket price for four hours of unlimited tasting (check the website for advance ticket sales - www.beaverdamchamber.com/tasteofwisconsin)

$25.00 ticket price day of the event

Cheese Companies include:

• Carr Valley Cheese
• Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
• DCI Cheese Co., Inc.
• Harmony Specialty Dairy Foods
• Kraft Foods
• Nordic Creamery
• Specialty Cheese Co. Inc.
• Widmer's Cheese Cellars
• Chalet Cheese Cooperative
• Crystal Farms
• Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery
• Holland's Family Cheese LLC
• Lactalis Deli, Inc.
• Organic Valley Cooperative
• Pasture Pride Cheese
• Roelli Cheese
• Westby Cooperative Creamery

 

Jeanette Hurt will be conducting a Wisconsin Cheese tasting at Ray's Wine in Wauwatosa's new tasting room on June 17th at 5:30 p.m. Visit the store website or call 414.258.9821 for more information.

Wisconsin Cheese will be a highlight of a party at Balzac Wine Bar in Milwaukee on June 14 from 6-8 p.m. celebrating the release of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine & Food Pairing by Jeanette Hurt and Jaclyn Stuart. Those interested in attending should RSVP to winepairingpros@gmail.com.

 

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers will once again host Salute to Cows night on June 10th at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, WI. The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board along with DuPont Cheese will be handing out dairy materials and cheese curds to all in attendance along with multiple dairy-related activities throughout the stadium.

WMMB Chef Ambassador Ben Ford will be creating two Wisconsin Cheese dishes at Taste of the Nation Los Angeles on June 6, 2010, from 1:00 - 4:00 PM at Media Park, located at the corner of Venice Blvd. & Culver Blvd. in Culver City, CA. 

Chef Ben will be preparing Lamb burger with wild arugula, spicy tomato chutney and melted Wisconsin Baby Blue from Hook's Cheese Company located in Mineral Point, WI, and BBQ pork buns with bread & butter pickles and melted Wisconsin Pleasant Ridge from Uplands Cheese Company in Dodgeville, WI.

For more information visit http://tasteofthenationla.blogspot.com/

 

The National "got milk?®" Milk Mustache Mobile Tour is crossing the country from March to September to help celebrate those special moments that families share around the dinner table and show moms that serving milk at dinnertime is an easy, and affordable, way to help make sure their families get the nutrition they need.

From June 5 to June 7, the 2010 Milk Mustache Mobile “Milk the Moment” Tour will be cruising through Madison hosting free local events that feature a variety of fun and educational activities for the entire family. The tour also offers moms a chance to share how they “milk the moment” at dinnertime for a chance to win an unforgettable family dinner with Milk Mustache celebrity and chef Tyler Florence.

Free Madison Events

Saturday, June 5, 2010
Location: Cows on the Concourse
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 6, 2010
Location: Northside Farmer's Market
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Monday, June 7, 2010
Location: Henry Vilas Zoo
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Come celebrate your love of cheese at the Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival. This wonderful family event includes music, food, amusement rides, childrens entertainment, walk/run, parade, animal petting zoo, cheese carving demonstrations, cheese tasting, cheese curd eating contest, cheese breakfast, cheesecake contest, and more!

The festival will open at 5 p.m. on Friday night and will feature a cheese curd eating contest and musical entertainment of RPM.

Saturday will feature the big cheese parade, cheese carving demonstrations, children's entertainment, free cheese tasting, petting zoo, chainsaw artist, and musical entertainment by Straight Chuters, Sonic Circus and Half Empty.

Sunday will feature the big cheese breakfast (held at LC Civic Center), cheesecake contest, children's entertainment, free cheese tasting, Little Chute Community Band, and the band performances of Homemade Brew and McInnis

There will also be many food booths, novelty booths, children's rides ($1/ride), and games all three days.

TICKET PRICES:

Friday & Saturday:

Adult (age 13 & up) -- $5 ($4 if purchased by June 3)
Child (age 4 to 12) -- $3 ($2 if purchased by June 3)
3 & under -- free

Sunday: Free admission for all.

HOURS:

Friday: 5:00pm - 12:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Sunday: 8:00am - 5:00pm

MERRY EDWARDS, owner/winemaker and James Beard award nominee from Merry Edwards Wines, Russian River Valley, CA. A ledgend in california winemaking circles, Merry is the acknowledged “Queen of Pinot Noir” in Sonoma. Along with her husband, Ken, they produce amazing estate and single vineyard Pinots. She also happens to make the NUMBER ONE Sauvignon Blanc in America- twice listed on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines, last time it was featured at #9. In 1997 she and Ken established Merry Edwards Wines, and have never looked back.

 On Friday, June 4, Bacchus Chef, Adam Siegel, will prepare five courses of food paired with three of Merry’s Pinots and of course the Sauvignon Blanc!  Featured Wisconsin Cheeses will be

 Les Frères

Marieke's Raw Milk Aged Gouda

Gran Canaria

Pleasant Ridge Reserve

Widmer's 8-Year Cheddar

http://www.bacchusmke.com/events.php

June Dairy Month farm breakfasts and dairy events are held throughout Wisconsin. Find the full list of events at:

www.WakeUpWithDairy.com.

Events are added by the individual host groups as the details are finalized so check back often!

 

Fromagination, Madison's premiere cut-to-order cheese shop, is celebrating the cheeses that made Wisconsin famous during May.

On Saturday, May 29, meet Cheese Underground Blogger Jeanne Carpenter, and sample a variety of Wisconsin classic cheeses.

Cost: No charge.