Since we started our show in 2016, we have been asking our guests at the end of every New Utah interview, “What is the one thing that you would tell someone visiting Utah they had to do before leaving?”
Jackie Assaad of Beehive Cheese sat down with us for the cheesiest episode 160. Of course we say you need to try some Beehive Cheese, but Jackie said she was put on the spot by our question. The one thing she would tell someone visiting Utah to do before they left would be to get into the Uintah mountains! You can find 10 great hikes in the Uintah’s at 10 Adventures.com
Fact: The Uintah’s are the only contiguous (that means together/in sequence) mountain range that runs east-west in the United States!
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Episode 160 we had an opportunity to sit down with Jackie Assaad of Beehive Cheese! She might be new to the cheese business but she is educated and loves cheese! That’s all one really needs, right?
Located in Uintah, Utah just at the foot of Ogden Canyon, Beehive Cheese is one of the longest tenured cheese companies in Utah! Jackie joins us from Florida via Colorado. From working on yachts to moving to Utah for the best skiing on earth, she now calls Utah home. Jackie took us back to the beginning of Beehive Cheese. It all started with two men, Ford & Welsh, 14 years ago when they begged Utah State to let them into their advance cheese making course! This is where the creation of Promontory, the base for their cheeses, starts! It was a cheese originally made for Utah State. Then came the awards… or maybe then came Buzzed, a lavender coffee rubbed cheese, which started their rubbed rind movement and then came the awards… We can’t remember. But it doesn’t matter cause 14 years ago it started and they are still producing some of Utah’s most delicious and versatile cheeses! A newer cheese of mention is their hatch chili rubbed, which 3% of sales goes to Red Butte Garden. *we love a good cause*
We did have to go to a very dark cheese place… is cheese wiz and easy cheese even cheese?
Beehive Cheese now has 8 different cheeses as well as their curd line. You can find them at local grocers, the Salt Lake Farmer’s Market, the Ogden Farmer’s market and locations out of state! They are frequently teaming up with local producers such as chocolatiers and craft beer makers for pairing classes. They have also paired with Harmon’s Grocery for classes throughout the year. You can follow them on Facebook for upcoming classes. You can also find Beehive Cheese on Instagram!
And if you were wondering, YES! They do sell a whole wheel of cheese!!!
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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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