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Introducing Cheese Feast!

You might be aware that I’ve been involved in a project called Cheese School for a while together with cheesemakers Todd and Jess Trethowan, producers of Gorwydd Caerphilly.

Our idea was to provide cheese-lovers with a similar experience to the wine appreciation classes which are available to wine lovers: a chance to meet British artisanal cheesemakers in person and understand more about how they make their cheese and how it varies from season to season as well as learning to create their own fantastic cheeseboards and cheese plates.

We’ve had spring, autumn and Christmas events and now we’re holding a celebration of winter cheese with our first Cheese Feast on January 31st - a 5 course cheesy extravaganza at the brilliant Source Food Café in Bristol.

As with previous events we will have Todd Trethowan there in person, joined on this occasion by Tom Calver of Westcombe Dairy who will talk about his award-winning cheddar for which he was recently nominated Best Food Producer at the BBC Food and Farming Awards.

I’ll be suggesting wine and other drink matches for each course and Andrew Cooper of the fabulous new Wild Beer Co brewery near Shepton Mallet* will be putting forward a beer match for each dish.

The mouthwatering menu (sorry, couldn’t resist that cheesy alliteration) is:

Gorwydd Caerphilly croquettes with roast onion mayonnaise

Ragstone goats' cheese tartlet with beetroot chutney

Stichelton arancini

Comté Tartiflette (my favourite cheesy winter dish)

Westcombe cheddar and apple pie

Tickets for the 5 course meal cost £55 include drink pairings and tasting notes and need to be bought in advance. The evening starts at 7 and should end by around 10pm. If we don't get too carried away . . .

Buy tickets here or email for booking info

* They actually brew right next door to Westcombe!

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Fiona Beckett on January 30 2013 at 14:261359556014

sorry - information's been up for a while. This was just a reminder. But we'll be doing more, yes. And we know that weekends work better for many people

steve on January 30 2013 at 14:071359554862

if this wasn't on a weeknight and i'd had more notice i'd have tried to come across for this! Ah well I'm sure there will be another!

Fiona Beckett on January 19 2013 at 10:341358591693

You're right! That was when they were at the Bristol Beer Factory.

jw on January 17 2013 at 23:281358465300

Wild Beer Co people had a hand in drink winners of the same BBC award in 2010 or 2011.