Stories tagged: "cheese"

Our Wisconsin Attendees of the 2020 World Championship Cheese Contest sample the top 75 cheeses of the competition Thursday evening at the Monona Terrace in Madison. (Photo by Sharon Vanorny)
Our Wisconsin Three Wisconsin Cheeses in Top 20

A gruyere from Switzerland wins the 2020 World Championship Cheese Contest

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren March 5, 2020 9:52 pm CST
Our Wisconsin Matt Lambric, a Baraboo cheesemaker and pepper-flavored high-heat cheese judge for the World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, pulls a sample from a block. (Photo by Jonathon Sadowski)
Our Wisconsin Hot Peppers Make For Devilish Dairy Products

High-heat cheeses burn bright in their own category at the World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski March 4, 2020 7:54 pm CST
Agriculture Bob Wills is the "big cheese" at Clock Shadow Creamery and Cedar Grove Cheese. (Photo courtesy of Clock Shadow Creamery/Facebook)
Agriculture From Economist to Cheese Maker: How Bob Wills Is Uniting The Craft

Award winner is the trunk of a tree with branches that reach throughout the best of Wisconsin cheese making

Jane Burns Jane Burns March 3, 2020 3:21 pm CST
Our Wisconsin A cheese sample rests on a cheese trier as it is being judged at the 2018 World Championship Cheese Contest. The contest occurs every two years. (Photo provided by Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association)
Our Wisconsin It’s the Super Bowl of Cheese Contests

World Championship event in Madison this week judges 3,667 entries from 26 countries

Jane Burns Jane Burns March 1, 2020 7:04 pm CST
Politics Members of the Colby High School choir perform a song praising their city's namesake cheese before a legislative committee (Image from video provided by WisconsinEye)
Politics ‘Colby, Colby Cheese’ Could Become Wisconsin’s Official Cheese

Effort Under Way to Make Colby Cheese Official Cheese of Wisconsin.

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren January 31, 2020 1:43 pm CST

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) holds a press conference on April 13 where he demands Gov. Tony Evers accept severe restrictions on local health officials, schools, and the governor himself in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in federal supplemental COVID food aid. (Image via Wisconsin Eye.) Politics Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
An archival image of the Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes in Waushara County, which have experienced a reduction in water levels due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigated agriculture. (Photo credit: Wisconsin DNR) Natural Resources Clean Water at Stake as WI Supreme Court Hears Appeals to Take GOP Restrictions Off the DNR
Left: A sewer line under construction along St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee in 1920. Right: Victor Berger, co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, and the first Socialist elected to Congress. Lower: Construction of a Milwaukee sewer line in 1932. (Photos courtesy: Wisconsin Historical Society and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Graphic by Morgaine Ford-Workman.) Infrastructure Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
The state Capitol in Madison is reflected off the windows of an office building across the street. (Photo by Julian Emerson) Politics Not Allowed: Nonpartisan Analysis Finds a Flaw in GOP Plans for Wisconsin Stimulus Money