Cheese News

A court-appointed commissioner has recommended Italian dairy group Parmalat cut the price it paid to its parent company Lactalis to acquire its North American cheesemaking division by $151 million, a move that will please minority shareholders.

A few weeks ago, your Gourmet Food Examiner took a trip to Ireland to examine the food scene, and the results were nothing short of inspirational.

There also have been a number of upgrades facilitated by the 2011 purchase by Rians, a family-owned company that also owns Laura Chenel's Chevre in Sonoma County.

All the important components were in place - lodging would be in an 18th-century restored farmhouse in Cortona, Tuscany.

It may not take time for other families, but it takes time for me - for us. Some of that is what I should probably think of as a start-up cost: my hope is that, having gone cold turkey on processed foods and particularly snack foods for a week, we will keep going with, at the very least, a whole lot less of the packaged stuff in the pantry and in ... (more)

CBC Calgary's food and nutrition columnist Julie Van Rosendaal gives some suggestions for good picnic foods.

From spam to er, burnt food, we take a tour of the the world's weirdest and most wonderful food museums.

Unless you're living under a rock where no cheese exists, you're probably aware that the West Coast is home to many of the artisan cheese world's most inspired varieties of fermented dairy.

Making cheese at home can be a time consuming and labor intensive enterprise, but if you are a lover of this ancient, diverse, and most extraordinary form of dairy, it is well worth the time and labor investment.

The long-term partnership between Wegmans and the dairy specialists at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is expected to be outlined at 1 p.m. June 26 at Wegmans Pittsford store located south of Rochester.

My shirt is drenched with sweat and mud, and I have an attractive graze running down my left shin.

Cheese maker Gerrard Mitchell, who has become well-known for his beer-flavoured cheese, hams and beef products.

If you're a cheese lover struggling to resist cheese because you've heard it's not good for you, then brace yourself for some really good news.

If we're ever together and you just want to piss me off, turn me into Humorless History Girl Who Takes Things Too Seriously, make a surrender-monkey joke about the French.

Annie's, Inc. , a small-cap natural foods company, has performed exceptionally well since its initial public offering last year.

GILMAN, Wis The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration is proposing a $126,000 fine for a Central Wisconsin cheese-maker.

It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here , and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post.

The eastern Ontario cheese factory destroyed by fire earlier this year hopes to break ground on rebuilding a new, larger operation next month to help the small town that relies on its business.

The milk war between the two supermarket giants has seen retail milk prices driven as low as a dollar a litre, with producers suffering a subsequent plunge in profits.

You wouldn't necessarily think a massive company that produces 2.4 million pounds of cheese a day would be part of a speciality farm-to-table program from the Bay Area's prestigious International Culinary Center.