Put Texas Cheese on Your Plate


Texas Cheeses
The Texas Cheese Plate was held on March 19th, 2007


More than 14 Texas artisans shared their goat and cow's milk cheeses and their knowledge of cheesemaking at the Texas Cheese Plate, the first-ever gathering of cheesemakers from across the state.  This follows in the footsteps of our 2005 In Our Own Backyard: American Cheese event.



Texas Cheese Plate2007 "Texas Cheese Plate" event downloads/links:
Texas Cheese Plate press release (PDF)
Texas Cheese Plate event booklet 2007-03-19 (PDF 13mb)
Cheeses Tasted at the Texas Cheese Plate (PDF)

2007-04-10 Houston Chronicle - Texas Cheese Comes of Age (PDF)
2007-03-28 Fort Worth Star Telegram - The time is ripe for Lone Star cheeses (PDF)
2007-05-24 D Magazine - Home Cooking Eat Local (Texas Cheese Plate) (PDF)

KERA 90.1 Think Interview with Texas Cheesemakers Podcast (MP3 22 mb)
Cheese Whizzes - dining blog entry by Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle

Texas Cheesemakers (2010)

Cheesemaker/Contact Company, City
Christian and Lisa Seger
Blue Heron Farm, Field Store Community
Marc Kuehl
Brazos Valley Cheese Company, Waco
James Keliehor Cheesemakers.com, Cleveland
Susan Holle
CheesyGirl Cheese Co., Sealy
Chrissy Omo CKC Farms, Blanco
Deborah Rogers Deborah's Farmstead, Fort Worth
Christopher P. Bates
Dos Brisas, The Inn at Dos Brisas
Dave Eagle
Eagle Mountain Cheese, Granbury
Michael and Debbie Sams Full Quiver Farm. Kemp
Edgar Diaz
Kaurina's dba Three Happy Cows
Anne Jones
Latte Da Dairy, Flower Mound
Elizabeth Gray
La Vaquita, Houston
Debbie Ferrell Maid in the Shade, Rosanky
Todd Moore Moo Cheeses / Lucky Layla Farms, Garland
Paula Lambert Mozzarella Company, Dallas
Cheryl Haubrich On Pure Ground Dairy, Bonham
Amelia Sweethardt Pure Luck Grade A Goat Dairy, Dripping Springs
Ben Godfrey
Sand Creek Farm, Cameron, 76520
Darlene and Robert Stryk
Strykly Texas Cheese, Schulenburg
Faith Frerichs
Texas Jersey Cheese, La Grange
Willhoite Families
Twelve Gates, Kingsbury
Stuart and Connie Veldhuizen Veldhuizen Family Farm, Dublin
Mark Burow
Wateroak Farms, Bryan

Resources

In the DFW area, support and buy local Texas cheeses at these markets: Central Market, Whole Foods, Molto Formaggio. Scardello Artisan Cheese, Flavors from Afar and Mozzarella Company

The Atlas of American Cheese, by Jeffrey Roberts, Chelsea Green Publishing - Book features profiles of Texas cheesemakers (book sample - PDF)

Houston Dairymaids - Lindsey Schechter brings the best of artisanal Texas cheeses to the Houston market
http://www.houstondairymaids.com/
http://www.dairymaiddiary.blogspot.com/

American Cheese Society (ACS) - nonprofit includes farmstead, artisanal and specialty cheesemakers from the United States, Canada, and Europe.
http://www.cheesesociety.org/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53300153868

Raw Milk Cheesemakers’ Association - home for American raw milk cheesemaker's
Slow Food USA and ACS co-founded the American Raw Milk Cheese Presidium

American Raw Milk Presidium Mission and Protocol document: http://www.rawmilkcheese.org/index_files/presidium.htm