Cheesemakers and cheese galore
Outstanding Canadian cheesemakers from coast-to-coast are represented at The Great Canadian Cheese Festival, offering whey more than 125 artisan cheeses for tasting and purchase at the Artisan Cheese & Fine Food Fair on Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3.
The Festival showcases producers who turn the pure milk of Canadian cows, goats, sheep and water buffalo into cheese, using no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, and no modified milk ingredients.
More than 30 cheese producers have signed up so far. More are expected by the time the Festival gets under way.
QUÉBEC
Jean Morin of Fromagerie du Presbytère with his award-winning Louis d’Or.
- Fromagerie du Pied-de-Vent
- Fromagerie du Presbytère
- Fromagerie Île-aux-Grues
- Fromagerie La Station
- Fromagerie Médard
- Fromagerie Nouvelle France
- Le Fromage au Village
- Les Fromagiers de la Table Ronde
- Laiterie Charlevoix
- Fromagerie les Folies Bergères
ONTARIO
- Primeridge Pure
- Upper Canada Cheese
- Best Baa Dairy
Margaret Morris-Peters of Glengarry Fine Cheese.
- Fifth Town Artisan Cheese
- Glengarry Fine Cheese
- Black River Cheese
- Mariposa Dairy
- Empire Cheese & Butter
- C’estbon Cheese
- Cross Wind Farm
- KendalVale Cheese
- Back Forty Cheese
- Jensen Cheese
- Thornloe Cheese
- Monforte Dairy
- Maple Dale Cheese
- Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese
- Ontario Goat Cheese
- Ontario Water Buffalo Company/Quality Cheese
BRITISH COLUMBIA
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
How Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar is made at Cows Creamery in Prince Edward Island.
Merci beaucoup to Plaisirs Gourmets, a leading distributor of Québec cheese, for its support of the Festival with the outstanding cheese producers it represents. Plaisirs Gourmets maintains an excellent website at fromagesduquebec.qc.ca.
Much thanks also to Glen Echo Fine Foods for making it possible to present three of the best B.C. cheesemakers in a Best of the West Pavilion in addition to showcasing other producers and artisan foods.
