Websterville, VT – The award was presented on August 5th at the Business Meeting during the 28th Annual ACS Conference and Competition in Montreal. The ACS Academy of cheese was created 20 years ago to honor early supporters of the American Cheese movement and was re-launched at the 2011 conference. The award aims to honor individuals who share a related industry vocation and passion for growing the artisan, farmstead and specialty cheese industry in North America. “This award provides an opportunity to honor and celebrate a group of exceptional people who have dedicated their lives to defining and redefining goat cheese in the United States,” said Christine Hyatt, president of the American Cheese Society. “Our industry is in a better place because of these goat cheese pioneers, and we thank them.”
Seven others, six of whom are women cheesemakers, were inducted into the prestigious Academy of Cheese. “I feel a deep connection with this group of women. We all started making cheese at the same time in different corners of the U.S,” Hooper recollects. “We helped each other solve problems with our cheeses and commiserated in a time when goat cheese wasn’t popular and women making cheese was not the norm.”
In their twenty-seventh year of business, Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery is a leading American creamery crafting innovative, all-natural fresh and aged goat cheeses, crème fraiche, mascarpone, and European-style cultured butter.
Source: Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery
