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Widmer’s Cheese: 100 Years of Continuity Still Tastes Good

June 16, 2023

The village of Theresa, Wisconsin (pop. 1200+), on the Rock River south of Fond du Lac, is home to a cheese factory run by one family for more than 100 years. Formerly the Riverside Cheese Factory, the small-two story building decorated with the crests of Switzerland’s 20-plus cantons houses an operation that relies on traditional…

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Featured Cheesemonger: Greg Upward

September 19, 2019

“We were all teaching ourselves, you know…flying by the seats of our pants and learning to do it as you were doing it,” he said. “It was much different than it is now.”

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Crave Brothers: Stay in the Groove

September 17, 2019

George now manages that cheese production facility, which now employs about 45 employees. Crave Brothers employs nearly the same amount of people across the road at the milk production facility. He is still up every day at about 5:00 a.m.

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Willi Lehner: It’s All About the Milk

August 2, 2019

So what truly excites Lehner now when it comes to making cheese is a particular source of all great cheese – milk – particularly raw cow milk from cows feeding on clean pasture grasses.
“When I can get really exceptional milk…I drop everything,” Lehner said. “That inspires me.”

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Featured Cheesemonger: Stuart Mammel

August 2, 2019

One thing that makes him an attentive cheesemonger is his attitude towards people who may not have as much to spend as an affluent, worldly traveler.

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Brenda Jensen: A Passion for Sheep & Cheese

June 17, 2019

Brenda Jensen lives in the rolling hills of western Wisconsin near Westby, where she, her husband, three employees, a dog and occasional visiting grandchildren share the landscape with 700 dairy sheep. Those “girls” – the ones who are not producing lambs or currently dry – are milked twice a day and that milk produces award-winning…

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Featured Cheesemonger: Shannon Berry

June 17, 2019

Shannon Berry has been at Fromagination almost three years, now its Floor & Kitchen Manager. She traveled to the West Coast, East Coast, and back to Wisconsin before becoming a cheesemonger, and settling into training other cheesemongers to showcase the Badger State’s most famous product. “I work here because I like food, I like people…

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Marieke: Eat Cheese and Keep the Cows Happy

April 29, 2019

This month’s featured cheese maker is Marieke Peterman of Holland’s Family Cheese, the business name for a very successful Wisconsin cheese brand and her namesake, Marieke Gouda. The busy staff and many visitors at the small complex she has established in Thorp, Wisconsin, 45 minutes east of Eau Claire, show the results of a very…

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Fromagination Spring Cheese Classes

April 4, 2019

After the huge success of our Winter Cheese Classes, we have put together a brand new series of classes based around the theme of Spring. Starting May 9th for 10 weeks, our new Spring Cheese Classes will take you on a culinary journey around the world, where you will learn all about the various cheese…

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Tea & Cheese

March 27, 2019

An Unconventional Pairing When you think of cheese pairings, you think wine, beer, crackers, preserves, chocolate or olives. Those are all amazing pairings. There is however, a new pairing that has many cheesemongers and other cheese fanatics very excited. Tea and cheese! The idea of pairing tea and cheese is somewhat unconventional. The variance in…

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