The Dairy Show

Cheese Rolling

Today was the great cheese rolling competition in Gloucestrshire England.  If you are not familiar with this event, basically its a bunch of crazy people throwing themselves down a giant super steep hill after a wheel of Double Gloucester.  The winner gets to keep the cheese.  Its an extremely dangerous competition that results in many many injuries.  This must be one special piece of dairy.  You can read more about it in this article from The Daily Mail.  

Italian Cheese "Bail Out"

The makers of Parmigiano Reggiano in Italy are in trouble.  This amazing cheese is made under strict guidelines, by individual farms, has seen its whole sale price drop to a level that makes it unprofitable.  As a partial solution the government of Italy is buying 100,000 wheels to donate to charity. 

You can read more about it in The Wall Street Journal   

and check out this video story with some cool shots of how the cheese is made.