Dairy

The Florida Departments of Agriculture and Education have joined a campaign to fight and defeat childhood obesity in cooperation with Dairy Farmers, Inc./Dairy Council of Florida and the NFL, multiple health organizations and several major corporations. …

The mere smell of a cheese can indicate its pastoral origins. So, when inhaling the deep floral, fruity aroma of Queso de Gua, a semi-aged sheep’s milk cheese, it’s no wonder that the experience is like breathing in the fragrance of pastures on Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, where the cheese is produced. …

Food company Nestl USA created a new direct store delivery unit based in Oakland, CA. Tony Sarsam, who used to work for Dreyers Grand Ice Cream (another Nestl unit), will run the new division. The new business unit will handle delivery for a number of Nestl brands, including Digiorno pizza and California Pizza Kitchen and also ice cream brands like Edys and Hagen-Dasz made by Dreyers. …

Eleven Connecticut residents will soon have to go on a diet. The Farmers Cow, a group of local Connecticut dairy farms that sell dairy, eggs and other products, has picked eleven winners in their ice cream naming contest and each winner will receive a summers supply of The Farmers Cow Ice Cream. …

How big a deal is a grilled cheese sandwich? Well, if you ask Cabot Creamery Cooperative, it’s 320-pounds BIG! That’s right, Cabot holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest, huge-est, most humongous Grilled Cheese Sandwich ever made. The record, established on November 4, 2000 during the 2nd Annual Everglades Cheese Cracker Festival in Everglades City, Florida, still stands despite several [failed Boo!] attempts by various groups over the past decade to better Cabot’s record. …