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Slow Food
Cypress Grove's Mary Keehn
Community coalitions designed to promote locally grown
and produced foods, inspired by Italy’s Slow Food movement, are
flourishing across the United States.
Founder, Carlo Petrini, started
Slow Food as a response to the opening of a McDonald’s at the base
of the Spanish Steps in Rome in 1986. Concerned with the growing
industrialization of food in Europe, he saw rich local food
traditions being replaced by fast food restaurants and
supermarkets. By urging friends and communities to preserve food
traditions, Petrini spawned an international movement.
Slow Food will take center stage
this summer in San Francisco. This is the first-ever American
collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food
movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good,
clean and fair.
American Cheese Society
- the Results are In!
Cowgirl's proud cheesemakers
We just returned from the American
Cheese Society (ACS) Annual Conference in Chicago, proudly
displaying four ribbons awarded to Cowgirl Creamery cheeses. We were
equally excited about seeing so many cheesemaking friends at the
conference.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, ACS was
incubated at Cornell University with a mission to improve the quality
of American made cheese. The first meeting consisted of a small
band of graduate students, professors, farmers and a half dozen cheesemakers. This year, 800 people attended the conference –
cheesemakers, retailers, wholesalers and people whose products make
artisan cheesemaking possible. Producers from 30
states and three Canadian provinces submitted 1,149 cheeses for
judging. Each cheese is judged by two people – one focused on the
technical merit of the cheese and the other on the aesthetics
(taste, appearance). The judging provides valuable written feedback
for the cheesemaker, enabling them to move forward in refining their
cheesemaking craft.
To learn more about ACS and to see
the results from this year’s competition, please visit the
website.
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David Gremmels, Ig
Vella,
& Cary Bryant from Rogue Creamery |
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Slow Food Nation San
Francisco – Come to the Table
Over Labor Day weekend, Fort Mason will be home to 15 distinct Taste
Pavilions where attendees can sample the slow foods of America.
Peggy Smith, Sue Conley and Lynne
Devereaux have been selected as curators of the Cheese Pavilion,
where over 60 American artisan cheeses will be offered for tasting.
Many of the cheesemakers and dairy farmers represented on the
tasting plates will be presenting short educational programs
throughout the day on subjects that encompass all of the elements of
cheese production from pasture management to cheese affinage.
Cowgirl Creamery will
also participate in the Farmers Market at San Francisco’s Civic
Center which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 &31
from 9AM-5PM.
To learn about Slow
Food Nation ’08 – Come to the Table, visit the
website.
We hope
to see you there!
Farmers Markets
Cowgirl Creamery is selling our award-winning cheese at farmers
markets in the Bay Area this summer.
Point Reyes
Station
Saturday Mornings
June through October
Ferry Plaza Market, San Francisco
Saturday Mornings
Year-round
Marin Farmers Market , San Rafael
Thursday and Sunday
Mornings
June through August
Palo Alto
Saturday Mornings
June through August
Petaluma
Wednesday Evenings
June
through September
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