Author: Kyle Richmond

“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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…