This was a really fun one for me! A few weeks ago I facilitated a Cheese 101 + Tasting at the Tisbury Library. The library program coordinator reached out to me about doing a sort of cheese tasting / lecture class for their library members. I jumped at the opportunity!
I had a lot of fun putting together a tasting plate of 5 cheeses and preparing “lecture materials”. It made me realize that I really enjoy teaching! The session was extremely interactive and we had a lot of great questions from the participants. We tasted our way through 5 cheeses that represented a few of the different “cheese families”. I shared info about the science of cheesemaking and cheese tasting.
Everyone learned a little something and tried some delicious cheese. A win-win!
Our cheese line-up included:
🧀 St. Stephen from Four Fat Fowls – This was sooo ripe and ready that we spooned it out!
🧀 3 Year Cheddar from Cabot Creamery – An absolute crowd pleaser
🧀 Alpha Tolman from Jasper Hill – Complex and crushable
🧀 Prufrock from Grey Barn – Our hometown hero!
🧀 Great Hill Blue from Great Hill Dairy – Spicy and powerful
I’m hoping to do more cheesy events like this across the island. There are a few more libraries on the island where I can maybe take this cheese show on the road 😉
