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 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 provides wedding favors for your guests

Spring is heading toward summer.  The birds and the bees are getting active.  Where do you get ideas to help plan a wedding? From 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, Fromagination will be available to talk about weddings at Madison’s Edgewater Hotel.  Tickets are $25, or 2 for $40. The Everafter wedding…

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Fromagination's shop is a fun food experience!

Do you have a favorite place you visit – or thing you do – on vacation?  Does it ever involve food? Travel site and magazine Travel+Leisure recently published a list of places that cheeselovers should visit before they die.  Wisconsin was, of course, on the list!…along with Switzerland, France, northern California, Vermont and several other…

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Saturday, April 22, is Raw Milk Appreciation Day! Wisconsin is a state that has heard much of the debate – “America’s Dairyland” being one of its adopted mottos -about raw milk.  While most people drink pasteurized milk, many of those same people may also be comfortable eating a raw milk cheese. There are many great…

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