For the second year, California's Artisan Cheese Festival was a huge success!

Thanks to all of the attendees, cheesemakers, presenters, chefs and vendors for your participation in the March 2008 festival in Petaluma, California. And thank you again to all of our sponsors for helping to make this year's festival possible.

Please mark your calendars and join us next year — March 20-23, 2009 — at the Sheraton Sonoma County-Petaluma hotel for the third California's Artisan Cheese Festival. Planning is underway and the schedule of events will be posted, and tickets will go on sale, in Fall 2008.

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What people are saying about the 2008 California's Artisan Cheese Festival:

“It was well worth the weekend. Not only did I attend seminars with the engaging Laura Werlin…I sat in on sessions with noted cheese makers themselves. Meeting people who love what they do is something that means a lot to me.”
—Margaret Fox, Margaret’s Mendocino Kitchen

“The festival is proving that gourmet artisan cheese from small producers - as far away from Kraft individually wrapped American "pasteurized prepared cheese product" as the earth is from the moon - is one of the hottest food trends in the United States.”
—Leslie Harlib, Marin I-J

“The Cowgirl seminar was awesome—great to listen to the ladies, and to have Albert Straus there was awesome!”
—Marci Gagliardi, Tablehopper

“Julia Von De Bur, a San Jose teen with a penchant for "aromatic cheeses," found just what she was looking for and more Saturday at the second annual Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma. She tasted a half dozen hand-crafted cheeses under the shade of a white tent just outside the Sheraton hotel, and her favorite was the blue cheese from the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co.”
—Martin Espinoza, Santa Rosa Press Democrat

“I had SUCH a good time...the festival has only gotten better--great seminars, top-quality products, and all masterfully coordinated.”
—Margo True, Food Editor, Sunset Magazine

“While the highlight was tasting tons of scrumptious cheese, I did learn how to create a beautiful cheese plate.”
—yumsugar.com blog