Crowning The Big Cheese At The Cheesemonger Invitational

The mood is edgy at the 2018 Cheesemonger Invitational (CMI) in San Francisco. The cheesemongers are finishing their written exams and starting their taste trials and smell tests … and you can feel the tension in the room.

Time out — what is a cheesemonger, you ask?

Christy Caye, of St. James Cheese Company, said, "Our job is to introduce Americans to really a new world of cheese that they've never known before." 

"Normal people don't walk around with an encyclopedic knowledge of cheese, but we do," said Shannon Voelkel, of C'est Cheese.

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