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Sonoma County cheesemakers win top awards at the American Cheese Society Fest

Grilled cheese gets a three-chef facelift at Hot Cheese, a street food concept from John Ash, Bruce Riezenman and Mei Ibach

Home Cheese making: Home cheese making is making a re-debut as a chic culinary skill. The Beverage People is where to go in Sonoma County to learn the craft and get the supplies for making cheese.

Artisan Cheese Festival 2010; Follow your nose to the fourth annual Artisan Cheese Festival, served up ripe, runny and wonderfully aged throughout this weekend, March 26-28, 2010. The dairy-tastic event brings together some of the top cheesemakers from the West Coast (and beyond) in four curd-filled days of eating, sniffing, and celebrating the renaissance of hand-crafted cheeses.

Cheesemongers + Winter Artisan Cheese Fest: Sheana Davis’s Winter Artisan Cheese Fest, A Life on the Wedge by Gordon Edgar

Madrona Manor’s Joseph Bain is the Master of the Cheese Cart

Epicurean Connection: Sheana Davis is a Sonoma catering institution and nationally-known cheesemaker who recently opened her tiny deli in in Boyes Hot Springs (just outside the town of Sonoma).

Two women, four cans and some killer cheese: Lisa Gottreich and Miriam Block are artisan cheesemakers behind the Bohemian Creamery in Bodega Bay. From humble beginnings at the dairy, the duo now sell to some of the top restaurants in the country.

Cheese Shop of Healdsburg: Tucked quietly into a Center Street mini-mall, Doralice Handal’s Cheese Shop of Healdsburg (423 Center Street, Healdsburg, 707.433.4998) is a dark, cool cheese sanctuary that hits you with a blast of unmistakably funky cheese smell when you walk in.