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IDDBA Presents 2014 Show & Sell Center
The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) will feature the Show & Sell Center at Dairy-Deli-Bake 2014. A highlight of the annual seminar and expo, the Show & Sell Center is a 10,000-square-foot retail merchandising and idea center filled with innovative, actionable selling examples and attention-getting displays created by world-class merchandisers. The event will be held June 1-3 in Denver. The IDDBA’s Show & Sell Center focuses on four areas: meals, deli, cheese, and bakery/cakes. It is put together by passionate industry professionals who volunteer their time and talent, seeking out new ideas and products, creating merchandising programs, and teaching retailers how ...

Swiss Emmentaler Wins World Championship Award
An international panel of expert judges has named a Swiss Emmentaler as the 2014 World Championship Cheese. Cheesemaker Gerard Sinnesberger from Kaserei Sinnesberger in Gams, Switzerland, took top honors out of 2,615 entries from 22 countries for his Original Schweizer Rohmilch Emmentaler, a large format, big wheel Swiss. Out of a possible 100 points, the Emmentaler scored 97.85 in the final round of judging, during which judges re-evaluated the top 16 gold-winning cheeses to determine the overall champion. First runner-up in the contest, with a score of 97.689, was Erzherzog Johann, made by Alois Pichler and Team at Obersteirische Molkerei ...

Castello's New York Pop-Up Cheese Store
Castello® cheese, maker of creatively crafted cheese available at grocery and fine food stores nationwide, will celebrate the art of cheese with its New York Pop-Up Store, open now through July 6 at 462 West Broadway in New York’s Soho neighborhood. Over the next several weeks, Castello® will offer visitors a selection of premium cheeses; interactive tastings; elegant, made-to-order Premium Cheese Layer Cakes for celebrations; mini seminars about entertaining with cheese; experiential evenings centered around cheese; and in-store sculpting demonstrations transforming premium cheese into works of art depicting New York city landmarks. “For more than 120 years, Castello® has been the source of the finest creatively ...

Sara Wilson Receives COOC Pioneer Award
Greeted with warm applause and a standing ovation, specialty food entrepreneur Sara Wilson accepted the California Olive Oil Council’s Pioneer Award at the Council’s awards dinner on April 5 in Monterey, Calif. Wilson is the managing partner of The Pasta Shop, the flagship store of Market Hall Foods, a group of family-owned food businesses based in Oakland, Calif. In presenting the award, Nancy Ash, the 2012 Pioneer Award recipient, outlined 20 years of contributions Wilson has made toward building and continuing to grow the California olive oil sector. The audience of over 150 growers, producers, retailers, trade affiliates and educators ...

Atalanta Wins Top Cheese Award
Atalanta Corp. came home with an astonishing eight awards at the first annual Canadian Cheese Awards, held on April 7 in Toronto, Ontario. The competition hosted cheesemakers from across Canada, with nearly 300 products from 76 producers. The independent competition honored cheeses from several provinces, spanning all types including cow, sheep, goat and water buffalo milk cheeses. Atalanta’s valued partner, Quality Cheese, won three top awards for its Bella Casara Mascarpone, winning Best Ontario Cheese, Best Fresh Cheese and Best Cow’s Milk Cheese. Albert Borgo, director of sales and marketing, told the crowd, “We launched [the cheese] last summer but ...

OFRF Announces New Grant Round for Funding Organic Research
The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) has released a request for proposals (RFP) for its 2014 grant cycle. Proposals for funding organic farming research are due on May 15, 2014. Since its grant program began in 1992, the OFRF has given out more than $3,000,000 in grants to a wide spectrum of researchers and farmers to conduct cutting-edge research on best practices in organic farming and food systems. The OFRF particularly encourages farmers, ranchers, scientists and extension personnel to apply for funding. More information can be found at the OFRF website: http://www.ofrf.org/research/grants/request-research-and-education-and-outreach-proposals. The OFRF expects to give away approximately $60,000 ...

Cheese Buyers Can Win All-Expense Paid Trip to SIAL Paris From CIAA
The Cheese Importers Association of America (CIAA) is sponsoring a trip to the Salon International de l’Agroalimentaire (SIAL), the largest food exhibition in the world, taking place in Paris, France, Oct. 19-23, 2014. Discover the latest trends and innovations in cheese, display and packaging from around the world. Ten participants will be chosen in a random drawing to win an all-expense-paid educational trip to SIAL. The program includes educational tours as well as networking with industry experts and other learning opportunities in and around Paris. In order to qualify for the SIAL trip, you must be the dairy category manager, ...

Formaggio Kitchen’s Julie Biggs Wins Two 2014 Good Food Awards for Charcuterie
Formaggio Kitchen announces that Julie Biggs, house charcutière at the specialty food retailer’s Cambridge, Mass., shop, has received two Good Food Awards for her Pâté de Campagne en Gelée and Smoked Beef Tongue. One of 130 winners from across the U.S., receiving two awards is a rare accomplishment, and Biggs was honored at the fourth annual awards ceremony (Need time frame here... “last week” / “last month” etc. AA) at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco. The Good Food Awards celebrate the people who make food that is delicious, respectful of the environment, and honors our communities and cultural traditions. “Julie’s ...

Celebrating the American Cheese Plate: 2014 ACS Conference & Competition
The American Cheese Society (ACS) has announced that it will bring its annual Conference & Competition to California for the first time in more than 10 years. With the theme of “Celebrating the American Cheese Plate,” the 31st Annual ACS Conference & Competition takes place July 29-Aug. 1, 2014, at the Sacramento Convention Center and at various locations around the state capital. Just as a good cheese plate brings together a variety of tastes, textures and experiences, so too will this event, which will welcome nearly 1,000 cheese industry members to Sacramento, including cheesemakers, retailers, distributors, importers, specialty food producers and even enthusiasts who simply appreciate ...

Carol Christison, Longtime IDDBA President, Remembered
Carol L. Christison, longtime International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) president, died March 4, 2014. Christison replaced retiring International Cheese & Deli Association executive director, Willard T. Reese, in December of 1982 at the Madison, Wis.-based organization, and over the next 31 years, built the association into the leading organization in the industry. The Association later became known as the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association. Christison had left an executive position with The American College of Sports Medicine to avoid relocating her family and quickly embraced the vision of the Association – which is to be the essential resource for relevant information and services ...

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