Fromagination cheesemongers visit Uplands Cheese 2017

Recent Fromagination Cheesemonger Vivien Rendleman – pictured middle in the attached image – wrote our second installment: As cheesemongers at Fromagination, we are often asked how we know so much about cheese. While a lot of our knowledge certainly has to do with our own individual passion and interest, we are also lucky to interact…

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Fromagination Employees Visit a Dairy Farm

Working as a Cheesemonger at Fromagination requires an interest in cheese, clearly. Part of the customer education that Fromagination employees carry out in our downtown Madison shop is focused on connecting people to their food.  This means we need to know where the cheese comes from (and, before that, the milk), who makes it, and…

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Fromagination supports Make Music Madison

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 – the Summer Solstice – brings Make Music Madison back to South Carroll Street. Fromagination has participated each year since the international day of music came to our city.  We’ve had beautiful music…and lots of fun…during that time. More than 60 U.S. cities and two states are celebrating Make Music Day…

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Fromagination Cheesemonger Shannon

People often have guests visit, and want to have some fun, and good-tasting, food for that gathering.  In Wisconsin, it’s easy to find very good cheese to create a cheese platter for such an occasion. Guests may know something about cheese – or nothing – but they’re usually willing to try those they’ve never tasted,…

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Fromagination features Nueske's sausages

Friday, June 9, will be a great sampling day at Fromagination…for meat lovers.  From 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Nueske’s Meats will be offer samples of it Summer Sausage (made from beef and pork) and its Liver Pate. Nueske’s is another local food producer that Fromagination is proud to feature along with our many Wisconsin…

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Fromagination helps name some Wisconsin Peregrine Falcons

Fromagination Cheesemonger Jeff recently helped Madison Gas & Electric Company (MG&E) name its newest flock of Peregrine Falcons.  This year the chicks  -who live “upstairs” from MG&E – are named for cheeses that are considered native, more or less, to Wisconsin. Thanks to MG&E for helping to publicize preservation of a formerly endangered species.  The Peregrine Falcon became extinct in…

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A great, organic annual event in Madison takes place on the longest day of the year.  Lucky for us, Fromagination has an outdoor patio with chairs and tables…and musicians on June 21. Make Music Madison happens on a Wednesday this year, and we’re ready with a great line-up of local musicians who will serenade our…

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Fromagination brings Raclette to the Madison Night Market!

Bringing Raclette to State Street The May 11 Madison Night Market featured Fromagination’s raclette machines melting the Alpine cheese for hungry market attendees…until we sold out.  Well before 11:00 p.m, unfortunately. The Night Market, kicked by Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, is a new feature for the downtown events calendar this summer.  And the food at…

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Fromagination has a great selection of artisan cheeses

People interested in cheese – and the artisan cheese culture that is developing quickly in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the midwestern U.S. – may look for bloggers to help inform them. A recent list of top cheese blogs in the U.S. includes Fromagination!  We made #20 on the list that includes many reputable cheese shops…

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