Dinner at L’Etoile (Cheese Tour Part IV)

The final post in our ‘Cheese Tour’ series see Parts I, II, & III) takes us to L’Etoile in Madison for a memorable meal hosted by chef Tory Miller and with guest cheesemaker Brenda Jensen of Hidden Springs Creamery in Westby, WI.  Tory is the finest chef in Wisconsin and Leslie and I both [...]

The Cave at Bleu Mont (Cheese Tour Part II)

 We’re doing a bit of catching up here at the Driftless Appetite.  Here is part two of our southwest Wisconsin cheese tour last October sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.  (See part one here.)  We got the chance to visit Willi Lehner, a Swiss-American cheesemaker at Bleu Mont Dairy in the small village of Blue Mounds.  [...]