Episode 149 we were joined by founder of the Utah Cheese awards and the upcoming Salt Lake Cheese Festival, Steve Jerman. We wanted to find out how in the world Steve came up with the idea of starting the cheese awards and what way they are going in the future!
Steve started at a very young age as an artist. Exploring all kinds of mediums, he eventually found himself touring the country with the Grateful Dead, creating “fan art” that made it’s way around the country with Dead-head’s, to spending a brief moment in the art world in NYC, creating a briefly successful clothing line, to being an apprentice at Utah’s very own, Rockhill Creamery.
Steve has such a passion for Rockhill Creamery. He let us know that he was drawn to their facility because they were doing things that other creameries were not doing. Fast forward to the end of Steve’s time at Rockhill, he decided that Utah needed something it was missing… Cheese Awards! Steve has taken the last two and a half years to build relationships with local creameries and hold the first two award ceremonies. Utah has such a delicious group of creameries creating cheese such as The Creamery/Cache Valley Cheese (aka Beaver cheese), Caputo’s Cheese Cave, Gossner Cheese, Rockhill Creamery, Heber Valley Cheese, Beehive Cheese, Finney Farm, and Park City Creamery just to name a very small handful of cheese makers! If you know a local creamery you love, make sure they know about the Utah Cheese Awards! We want this to keep growing! We mean, come on, last years winner of multiple categories is a delicious creamery, Finney Farm, in Hildale!
The last two years have been successful with the cheese awards that Steve found out that Salt Lake offers grants, he applied, and this summer Salt Lake City will experience a cheese festival! Steve is taking entries for the Utah Cheese Awards until May 1st for both cheese and items that would be served on a cheese plate (think nuts, sauce, bread, honey, etc.) Then join Steve and Salt Lake City, on June 8th, at the Garten at Mountain West Cider to celebrate local cheese makers at the first annual Salt Lake Cheese Fest! You can also like the pages and follow what is happening with both events on the Utah Cheese Award Facebook page and the Salt Lake Cheese Fest Facebook page.
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