Cheese Tasting

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Cheese Tasting
Potsdam Food Co-op to Host Tasting of New York Cheeses in Celebration of National Cheese Month. Acquaint your taste buds with locally-made cheeses and learn more about local cheesemakers and their finely crafted artisan cheeses.

May is National Cheese Month, and the Potsdam Food Co-op is celebrating the occasion by featuring a free tasting of more than a dozen delicious New York cheeses with many crafted by Northern New York cheesemakers. 

Cheese enthusiasts may not know that people who love cheese are called “turophiles” which combines the Greek word for cheese, “tyros”, and the English ending “-phile”, for lover, or that it takes 10 gallons of milk to make just 1 pound of cheese, or that cheese curd is simply fresh cheddar cheese before it’s been pressed into a block to age to become an aged cheddar.

Sampling Cheeses Crafted by:
1000 Islands River Rat Cheese of Clayton, NY
Meier's Artisan Cheese of Fort Covington, NY
Cedar Hedge Farm of Lowville, NY
Lively Run Goat Dairy of Interlaken, NY

A delicious variety of complementary foods will be served along with the free cheese samples.
The event cheese board will include crackers and pretzels, raw honey from Squeak Creek Apiaries of Brasher Falls NY, as well as various chocolates from the bulk department, Ithaca hummus, and fruits, etc. in a true charcuterie style sampling.

In addition to the cheeses sampled, Co-op shoppers will discover a variety of other cheeses from the cheesemakers available for sale at 10% off through the end of May.