Wm. Chocolate visits Fromagination

Wm. Chocolate Visits Fromagination Ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Fromagination Shop will have a special sampler – Wm. Chocolate – ready to make your tastebuds jump on Saturday, February 3. The local owner and creator of Wm. Chocolate is Will Marx, who will be sharing pieces of his high-quality chocolates with our customers.  Will started…

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Tourists to the Midwest can find interesting information in Midwest Living magazine six times a year. The end-of-year 2017 issue features tips from the Minneapolis catering/entertaining scene, a family-run stationary & home goods brand from rural Iowa, the Titletown entertainment district in Green Bay, and… Fromagination!…in a feature called “40 Fabulous Midwest Stores“.  The list of…

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The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual event for holiday shoppers is this weekend, November 18 & 19, in downtown Madison. The MMoCA Art & Gift Fair will feature many booths with gifts, art, and food! Come downtown and have a look at the beautiful offerings.  Order some artisan cheese gift sets while you’re there….

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Fromagination carries North Hendren Gorgonzola cheese

“The little guys are disappearing.” North Hendren Cooperative Dairy, in Willard, Wisconsin, wants to survive.  But six years from its 100th birthday, the specialty cheesemaking enterprise located in Clark County between Marshfield and Eau Claire, is experiencing a great struggle. Founded in 1923, the co-op is made up of 24 small, local dairy farmers who,…

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Cheese Tourism at Fromagination

Last week, the Fromagination had a visit from a group of people we see on a regular basis: Travel writers. Fromagination owner Ken Monteleone met with a group of six travel media staff from various locations, including two from the Spanish publication Complot.  They come to see a small city with a lot of buzz…including…

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Fromagination is an Isthmus magazine favorite!

Fromagination was named an Isthmus weekly Favorite (again) for 2017!  It’s an honor to get real support from the Madison/Dane County community for our business. Our shop was named #2 in the Specialty Food Shop category, behind Penzey’s Spices and before Asian Midway Foods.  Congratulations to both of them…but we’re the ones who carry spicy…

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Fromagination supports the Cheese Underground Radio project

If you are like some Fromagination friends, you may cook and either watch TV or listen to the radio simultaneously.  Or maybe you just need a good cheese story for your next commute to work.  Either way, if you’re a listener who likes the podcast format, we have a new source for cheese news for…

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Fromagination Cheesemonger Shannon takes a calf's photo during the tour

Recent Fromagination Cheesemonger Vivien Rendleman – who asked a lot questions in the milking parlor  – wrote our fifth installment: The last stop on our incredible tour organized by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board was Kellercrest Farm in Mt. Horeb. It seemed fitting to end our day with one of the many Wisconsin families responsible…

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Emmi Roth USA gives Fromagination employees a tour

Recent Fromagination Cheesemonger Vivien Rendleman – who helped sample lots of cheese at the Emmi Roth USA headquarters! – wrote our fourth installment: In 2016, a Wisconsin cheese took home the title of Grand Champion in the World Championpionship Cheese Contest for the first time since 1988. This cheese was Roth’s Grand Cru Surchoix, a…

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Fromagination employees listen to Tony Hook talk about cheese-making

Recent Fromagination Cheesemonger Vivien Rendleman – who took copious notes during our visits to producers – wrote our third installment: Tony Hook has been involved in cheese making since 1970, when he began working for the Monroe Cheese Corporation in Barneveld, the town that now gives his tasty goat milk Blue cheese its name. We…

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