The Slow Cheese Award was presented this morning to six herders and artisan cheesemakers who maintain cheesemaking traditions in times of mass-production. The award, presented during the inauguration ceremony of Cheese 2015 recognizes professionals who have turned their back on the shortcuts offered by modernity. Instead they stubbornly continue to make cheese and other foods with respect for naturalness, tradition and taste—even when it means hard work, risk and isolation.
The 2015 edition recognizes:
André Valadier, renowned producer of Laguiole (France)
A legendary dairy farmer in the small region of Aubrac, André Valadier is responsible for the revival in the 1960s of the Tome de Laguiole, cornerstone of French cheese tradition, and the Aubrac cattle breed. The founder of the Jeune Montagne cooperative, for years the mayor of the town of Laguiole, a regional councilor for Midi-Pyrenées and the chair of INAO’s national committee for dairy products, Valadier remains a reference point for new generations of French cheesemakers.
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