Slow Food Nation '08

Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 – 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm

Good cheese comes from good milk; good milk comes from good grass. Generations of American cheesemakers have turned America’s green pastures into Michigan’s aged raclette, Vermont’s famed cheddars and California’s goat milk chevre. The Cheese Pavilion offered visitors a chance to taste a flight of cheeses from a diverse selection of great artisanal cheesemakers. Visual displays illustrated the history of U.S. cheesemaking; cheesemakers spoke about their work and gave mini-lectures on how milk, bacteria and expert artisan producers create an endless variety of delicious, dynamic cheeses.

Featured cheesemakers:

•    Ancient Heritage Dairy, Scio, OR
•    Andante Dairy, Petaluma, CA
•    Bellwether Farms, Sonoma County, CA
•    Bravo Farms, Traver, CA
•    Capriole Goat Cheese, Greenville, IN
•    Cato Corner Farm,, Colchester, CT
•    Cedar Grove, Plain, WI
•    Cowgirl Creamery, Point Reyes Station, CA
•    Crawford Family Farm, Whiting, VT
•   Cypress Grove Chevre, Arcata, CA
•    Dancing Cow Farmstead Cheese, Bridport, VT
•    Dancing Goat Creamery, Byron Center, MI
•    Delice de la Valle, Sonoma, CA
•    Elk Creamery, Elk, CA
•    Faribault Dairy, Faribault, MN
•    Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese, Modesto, CA
•    Fraga Farm, Sweet Home, OR
•    Franklin’s Teleme, CA,
•    Harley Farms Goat Dairy, Pescadero, CA
•    Hope Creamery, Hope, MN
•    Jasper Hill Farm, Greensboro, VT
•    Joe Matos Cheese, CA,
•    Juniper Grove Farm, Redmond, OR
•    La Casa Dei Formaggi, Durham, NC
•    Larkhaven Farmstead Cheeses, Tonasket, WA
•    Laura Chenel Chevre, CA,
•    Lone Willow Organic Heirlooms, Firebaugh, CA
•    Meadow Creek Dairy, Galax, VA
•    Mecox Bay Dairy, Bridgehampton, NY
•    Mount Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA
•    Mozzarella Company, Dallas, TX
•    North Valley Farms, Cottonwood, CA
•    Northern Lights Foods, MN
•    Oakvale Farm CheeseMadison County, OH
•    Oregon Gourmet, Corvallis, OR
•    Organic Pastures Dairy, Fresno, CA
•    Pastureland Co-op, Minneapolis, MN
•    Pedrozo Dairy and Cheese, Orland, CA
•   Pholia Farm, Rogue River, OR
•    Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Point Reyes Station, CA
•    Prairie Fruit Farms, Champaign, IL
•   Redwood Hill Farm, Sonoma County, CA
•    Rockhill Creamery, Richmond, UT
•    Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR
•    Saint Benoit, Sonoma County, CA
•    Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT
•    Shepherd’s Way Farms, Northfield, MN
•    Steve-n-Sons Grassfields, Coopersville, MI
•    Sweet Grass Dairy, Thomasville, GA
•    Sweet Home Farm, Baldwin County, AL
•    Three Ring Farm, Logsden, OR
•    Three Sisters Farmstead, Lindsay, CA
•    Traders Point Creamery, Zionsville, IN
•    Tumalo Farms , Bend, OR
•    Twig Farm, West Cornwall, VT
•    Uplands Cheese Co., Dodgeville, WI
•    Vella Cheese Company, Sonoma, CA
•    White Cow Dairy, NY
•    Winchester Cheese, Winchester, CA