I was forwarded the text below from one of our major cheese suppliers for the CSA (Artisan Made NE), who are organizing the event described. Several of the cheeses we enjoyed this year are featured. Perhaps some of our members are looking forward to viewing the foliage with a drive to Bethlehem- and the opportunity to learn about cheese as well!!
Lesley
*Sister Noella Marcellino, OSB will be guest speaker at the fall-Farmstead Festival at Percy Thomson Meadows Farm, 78 Thomson Road in Bethlehem, CT 06751 on October 17, from 11am to 5pm organized by Artisan Made Northeast.
Sister Noella known as the "Cheese Nun" is internationally recognized as one of the foremost experts in the US in the art of natural-milk cheese-making. She received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Connecticut, received a Fullbright Grant to study cheese-making in France and was the recipient of the prestigious French Food Spirit Award.
She will participate in a Q & A session in the education tent at the festival where festival goers may ask her questions on cheese, cheese-making and the state of artisanal cheese-making in the USA or any other cheesy topic.
At the festival she will be surrounded by some of top cheeses made in the US today such as the Alpine style Bloomsday and the Gruyere style Dairyere both from Cato Corner Farm
in CT, goat's milk Chevre and the soft ripened Vespers from Beltane Farm in CT and a special selection of Vermont cheeses including Camembrie and Lakes Edge from Blue Ledge Farm, Organic Thistle Hill Tarentaise, Boston Post Dairy's Eleven Brothers and Tres Bonne aged Goat's milk cheeses, Goredawnzola and Boucher Blue from Green Mountain Blue Cheese and the Vermont Herdsman Asiago style from Parish Hill Creamery.
Sample from the tasting menu created by Certified Sommelier Sally Camm and purchase foods directly from the farms and artisan food makers to share with friends and family.
Don't miss Sister Noella in her element talking cheese at fall-Farmstead Festival On October 17th!
* The Cheese Nun DVD will also be available to purchase at the festival (see below).
From the distributor PBS Home Video: "Sister Noella Marcellino, The Cheese Nun, takes viewers on a fascinating and delightful personal journey as she becomes a champion for artisanal cheese makers on both sides of the Atlantic. While making a 20,000-mile odyssey through some of the most remote cheese-making regions of France, little did she realize that she was on her way to becoming a leading international expert in the art of natural-milk cheese-making."
Tickets $15 at:Farmstead Festival Tickets or at the gate the day of the festival ($18 PP).
Children 10 and under admission free.
Call 203 273-5821 for additional detail or e-mail info@artisanmade-ne.com.
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