Cheesemaker for a day at Fifth Town Artisan Cheese in Prince Edward County.
A taste of Oka almost 50 years ago sparked in me a lifelong love for cheese. That love has ripened into full-blown passion as more and more mouth-watering cheeses are being churned out by artisan, farmstead and specialty cheesemakers across Canada. I’d like to share that passion by making CheeseLover.ca an informative and entertaining meeting place for all who love cheese.
Expect this site to grow in scope as I’m not beholden to any one cheesemaker or one style of cheese. Heck, there are even excellent mass-produced cheeses out there! Although my initial focus will be on my home province, Ontario, glorious Quebec and other regions of Canada will receive their due.
Visit often as I aim to add new content regularly. And please do leave a comment as feedback is always welcome.
—Georgs Kolesnikovs
PS My business background is in magazine publishing and event promotion so don’t be surprised to see me explore the needs and wants of cheese consumers and the cheese industry in Canada as time goes by. As a custom magazine publisher, I produce Circumnavigator and Glory Road. Two events (actually, two coast-to-coast series of events) that I started in the U.S. and later sold were West Marine Trawler Fest and The Great American Motorcycle Show. Both the boating events and the motorcycle shows still thrive today.
Hi Georgs, would love to get in contact with you in regards to this website! Please give me a call at 613.476.2148 or sent me an email to the above.
Thank you
Caitlin den Boer
Cheese Intern
Economic Development Office
Corporation of The County of Prince Edward
Hi Caitlin – I’m with Provincial Fine Foods and I would love to connect with you. Drop me a line at laurenatprovincialfinefoodsdotcom.
I’ll be glad to speak with you, Caitlin, and help in any way I can. You folks at InvestInCheese.ca are doing a great job in promoting Ontario cheese.
—Georgs
I have linked your blog on mine and hope you will do the same:
http://cheesemonger.wordpress.com
Thanks,
Marcella Wright
Life in the fast lane; we are in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia heading south tomorrow into the Gobi
to film camel cheese! Would love to get some feedback from you guys about our camel cheese project;
Any specific questions you would like to ask the Mongolian Nomads making camel cheese?
Your input will be very useful for our research!
check out http://www.bethecheese.org;
All the best!
Talk soon!
Sebastian
Georgs! It’s me…Karen….one of your wonderful sales people from Great American days…
Some of the best days of my life!
Cheese huh? COOL.
Write me!
xoxo
Karen
Hi There,
I am an organic farmer in the Peterborough area. I am very interested in making my own cheese. Do you know of any cheese making courses or internships in the area.
Any information would be very appreciated. Great website! Thanks.
Kelly
Take a look at the Cheese Technology course at University of Guelph. Join the Canadian Cheese Society to meet like-minded people. Talk to Margaret Morris at Glengarry Cheesemaking and Dairy Supply. All can be found via Google. And of course attend The Great Canadian Cheese Festival and take the Invest In Cheese seminar.
Good luck!
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Good morning George: I noticed your message on Drew’s blog re the Cheese Festival (he’s just started following me, so I checked his site). You may be interested to know I also posted about that festival on my most recent blog page. Pls check it out, I think you’d be pleased. In the meantime, I’m delighted to find this site of yours. I will definitely find time to read it in more detail. Good stuff! Regard, Sheila Tucker
George, Love your site! Being based in Boston (USA), I only wish I could get my hands on more of the great Canadian cheeses I discovered at the 2011 ACS conference in Montreal. As your readers demonstrate a great interest in cheese education, I thought they might like to know about the new Academie Opus Caseus, offering professional development programs for cheesemongers and others working in the industry, at Mons Fromager-Affineur in France….in English! http://www.academie-mons.com.