Phew! What a weekend! So crazy that it took me until now to unload all the going-ons onto this page!!
It was a long and amazing weekend for Taste of Cheese at the Gourmet Wine and Food Expo. I spent a total of 32 hours over 4 days at the Metro Convention Centre asking everyone who would listen if they wanted to sample some cheese!
I arrived at the show on Thursday at 2pm with my mother and aunt, all ready to set up our little booth. By a stroke of fate, our next door neighbours were from Hot Mamas – the only other exhibitors from our little town of Pefferlaw (which, granted, I don’t actually live in.. but close enough!).
Once we were all set up, we were ready to spend the next 4 days offering every person who walked by a taste of the best cheese that the show had to offer (but seriously. People did tell us it was the best at the show. Seriously.)! We doled out samples of 2 year cheddar, Picobello, Feuille de Dreux, Abondance, Cabra Feliz, Foie Gras and more great products that I can’t even remember now! I got to be a salesgirl, which is among my favourite of all things to be. Of course, if you were to ask me today if I would want to do it all again this weekend, I would probably have to politely decline, but hey, there is only so many times in one week that I can handle hearing myself ask people if they would like to try some cheese.
I had a great time wandering around the show, trying wine, drinks, food. I was lucky enough to be across-the-aisle-neighbours with a German wine booth. That’s where I found my favourite wine of the show – a 2007 Riesling Kabinett. I had some amazing mac and cheese with goat cheese and truffles (2 days in a row!). On the last day of the show, to my surprise I came across a booth exhibiting some wonderful tequila, that I have tried before, and got a yummy sample of pomegranate tequila!
We sold lots of cheese, and over 5000 toothpicks worth of people tried samples of our great cheese! I was definitely tired at the end, but it was worth it!
Up next? Well, its December cheesebox time! If you’re looking for a great gift for any fellow cheese lovers, think about sending them a cheese box full of over a kilo of amaaazing cheese! Brie with truffles, walnut echourngnac, les petits vieux… I can’t wait to eat all of them!!
check out www.tasteofcheese.ca for information on our christmas taster!
