Olympic Spirit Visits U.S. as Banquo-et of Cheese
Results Are In!
From The American Cheese Society Competition
What did Olympic athletes do before whey powder and Super-Extra-Powerful-Trinitroglycerine Protein Bars? They ate cheese. Lots of it, and “straight out of the basket” (Pausanias). They might have come up with democracy even faster if they were eating cheeses as good as what we have today. Here are some of the 2012 competition results, fresh from Raleigh, North Carolina:
Farmstead Cheeses
Cheeses “made with milk from herds on the farm where the cheeses are produced”
Soft (all milks)
1st Sequatchie Cove Creamery, TN
Dancing Fern
2nd Cellars at Jasper Hill, VT
Weybridge from Scholten Family Farm
3rd Coach Farm, NY
Coach Farm Fresh Goat Cheese
3rd Rivers Edge Chevre, OR
Rivers Edge Chevre Siltcoos
Goat’s milk
1st Ruggles Hill Creamery, MA
Greta’s Fair Haven
2nd Sprout Creek Farm, NY
Madeleine
3rd Boston Post Dairy, LLC, VT
Tres Bonne
3rd Latte Da Dairy, TX
Latte Da Caerphilly
Sheep’s milk or mixed milks
1st Black Sheep Creamery, WA
St. Helens
2nd Willamette Valley Cheese, OR
Perrydale
3rd Everona Dairy, VA
Stony Man
3rd Kokoborrego Cheese Company, OH
Owl Creek Tomme
Semisoft (cow)
1st Fromages CDA Inc, QC
Le Baluchon
2nd Fromages CDA Inc, QC
Le St-Anne
3rd Thistle Hill Farm, VT
Tarentaise
Hard (cow)
1st Cricket Creek Farm, MA
Maggie’s Reserve
2nd Flat Creek Lodge, GA
Natural Rind Cheddar
2nd Fromagerie La Station, QC
Louis D’Or
2nd Fromagerie La Station, QC
Alfred Le Fermier
2nd Fromagerie La Station, QC
Chemin Hatley
2nd Robinson Farm, MA
A Barndance
2nd Sprout Creek Farm, NY
Toussaint
3rd Nature’s Harmony Farm, GA
Fortsonia
3rd Uplands Cheese, WI
Extra-Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve
American Originals
Goat’s milk
1st Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery, VT
Coupole
2nd Ruggles Hill Creamery, MA
Brothers’ Walk
3rd Rivers Edge Chevre, OR
Rivers Edge Chevre Beltane
Sheep’s milk or mixed milks
1st Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, WA
Flagsheep
2nd Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery, VT
Cremont
3rd La Moutonniere Inc., QC
Sein D’Hélène
Cow’s Milk
1st Spring Day Creamery, ME
La Vie en Rose
2nd Plymouth Artisan Cheese, VT
Original Plymouth
2nd Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese CO., CA
Point Reyes Toma
3rd Cowgirl Creamery, CA
Wagon Wheel
See what won Best of Show and more results on the ACS website
“There’s husbandry in heaven” (Banquo, Shakespeare)
And as for husbandry on earth, we’ve clearly got a lot to be proud of in this country.
Paul M. Capobianco
