I find it kind of funny when i think about there being whole committees and associations around cheeses alone! I guess this is true for all things food, but the dedication to one was certainly apparent at the Seattle Cheese Fest this year. Judy and I took a nice stroll through Pikes Place Market on this lovely day, amazing weather, and checked out the wares.
They had everything from cheedar to gouda. Supposedly we tasted the “best gouda in the world” which tasted pretty good. The amount of people at the festival made it hard to grab some cheeses but after wrestling through the crowds we managed to snag a few. It was not until then I realized that cheese tasting is almost as developed as wine tasting. Sure you pair the too up very well but even on it’s own, telling the differences between good cheeses is near impossible. In my mind, if it wasn’t some store bought brand, it was good 
I must confess that I am no where near a cheese guy, and being a veggie boy means it is no where near my diet. It’s nice to step out of ones tastes to explore what wonderful things other folks are doing though. At the festival there were a few cooking demonstration, one about gnocchi and another about making your own cheese. They were very well put together and I was very pleased to see the amount of people watching. My hope is at least half of that will make their own cheese or gnocchi one day rather than buying.
So the Cheese Fest was a success by terms of people, the way the cheese impacted, and the robustness of not just providing cheeses to try but also things to do with them. I will see you again next year Seattle Cheese Fest!