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"Before you bite into the cheese, observe the cheese," a woman wearing a microphone headset urges while she strolls among the tables at the crowded Vermont Pub & Brewery. "Touch the cheese with your fingers," she continues in Spanish-accented English. "When a cheese has high moisture, you can play with it like Play-Doh."... Read more

What do you call a trio of dashing middle-aged men sitting around eating chunks of cheese? If you're Roberta MacDonald, senior VP of marketing at Cabot Creamery Cooperative, the answer is obvious: "naturally aged cheddar hunks."... Read more

This year, the White House is expecting 60,000 people at its invitation-only holiday parties. One of the items on the menu is “Vermont white cheddar,” confirms Julie Adams, deputy press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush, though she was unable to verify the cheese’s provenance. A quick call to Cabot, the state’s largest producer of a cheese fitting that description, was not returned by press time.... Read more

In case you missed it: Adrianas, which took over the upper Church Street spot formerly occupied by NECI Commons, closed abruptly last week after a little more than a year in business. The space is for rent. Calls to owners Michelle and Ty Formel were not returned by press time.... Read more

It began as Starhill Dairy and morphed into Woodstock Water Buffalo, and now the country's only water buffalo creamery is changing its name yet again. Over the next two months, the company will roll out its third identity: Vermont SpoonDance Creamery.

Why the switch? "We did a lot of consumer research throughout 2007 and found that the new brand has a lot of consumer appeal," says Marketing Director Carey Clifford. Is that code for "People were weirded out by the idea of shaggy beasts with big horns, well, lactating"?... Read more

Reading Santé Magazine, a national trade publication available gratis to food and restaurant professionals, you'd never know the glossy 'zine is headquartered in Bennington. The cutting-edge editorial content deals with what's hip, not what's close to home.... Read more

By any measure, David Muller's girls have got it good. They sleep on waterbeds in a brand-new space filled with light and fresh air. The walls inflate automatically the moment the air temperature becomes uncomfortably cool and deflate as soon as the chill is gone. The milking parlor has been specially designed to ensure that they feel no unnecessary stress during the short period each day when they are actually working, and their pasture overlooking South Woodstock has the sort of view that would make a real estate agent weep.... Read more