As many will be only too well aware the G20 global leaders and their massive and seemingly endless entourages descended upon southern Ontario for a few hectic ( did someone just say chaotic?) days in late June. Could this be an opportunity for solid Jersey promotion? It could and it was! Thankfully world leaders being ultimately mere mortals like the rest of us have to take on nourishment, simply put, eat, every now and then. At a very special banquet for the G20 leaders Canadian products were featured. We have to hope this was the case throughout their stay. However, we know for sure that Canuck foodstuffs were the products of choice at "the big banquet"!
And lo and behold four fine Canadian cheeses were an important part of the menu.
Even better one of the cheeses, Belle de Jersey, is made from 100% Jersey milk! And, a second cheese on the menu is created at a Quebec plant that does make a highly regarded a Jersey cheese.
Belle de Jersey is produced by Les Bergeries du Fjord in the Lac St. Jean region of Quebec. This cheese was a Silver Medal winner at the First North American Jersey Cheese Awards held in Syracuse, New York in July 2009. And yes, the name relates to the family surrounding the internationally renowned Jersey cow Duncan Belle!
One of the other cheeses was from Laiterie Charlevoix from the Charlevoix region of Quebec. This plant has a beyond amazing dairy museum and is the source of L'Hercule de Charlevoix, a Jersey milk-only cheese that also won silver at the 2009 NA Jersey Cheese Awards.
It is so great to think that Jersey cheese would be so high profile! We heard this great news via Cheeselover.ca and then Kathy Guidi of Artisan Cheese Marketing informed us that the cheeses had been mentioned in a full page article describing the meal in The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.
This is only the beginning of great news for top quality Canadian Jersey cheeses and the cheese-makers who lovingly create them!
Monday, July 12, 2010
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