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Comox Brie earns another World Award!October 2009 Comox Brie earns Silver at the 2009 World Cheese Awards competition, run by the UK’s Guild of Fine Food for 21 years. Staged this year in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria on October 1, it attracted cheeses from 34 different countries. Over 150 judges from 24 countries, including Mexico, South Africa, Japan and Australia, sampled the 2,440 entries. Guild of Fine Food national director Bob Farrand said: “This was the most international team of judges ever assembled, ... It’s the largest and most cosmopolitan cheese awards on the planet.” This year’s awards formed part of a wider global event organized by the Guild of Fine Food, including an international cheese conference and the World Cheese Festival which attracted over 15000 consumers to the two-day festival, all eager to taste the winning cheeses. More about the World Cheese Awards from The Guild of Fine Food. 2009 EventsOpportunities for you to talk with us in-person and of course taste a delicious selection of Natural Pastures award-winning artisan cheeses! November 12 - 15, 2009
Alpine Food Festival at Mount Washington Alpine ResortHighlights:Alpine Cocktail ReceptionFriday, September 04 Highlighting our kick-off to the Alpine Festival are appetizers made fresh by local chefs using local ingredients, paired with Vancouver Island and B.C. wines, and beer from Comox Valley’s new brewery. The evening will feature guest chefs, winemakers, authors and a presentation from Mary Ann and Edgar Smith, owners of the award-winning Natural Pastures Cheese Company. A host of Comox Valley producers will also be working to provide guests with gourmet grazing in true Alpine-to-Valley style. Grazing in the Alpine MarketplaceSunday, September 6 1st Annual Alpine to Valley Cheese Roll Presented by Natural Pastures Cheese Company 2nd Annual Canadian Cheeserolling Championship
August 15. Natural Pastures Cheeses were selected through vigorous testing to be the Championship wheels of cheese for every race of this event on a grassy steep race course at Whistler. Women's and men's winners competed through elimination rounds to win massive amounts of delicious, world-class, award-winning artisan Natural Pastures Cheeses. Yes the organizers of the Championship, Dairy Farmers of Canada, also selected and purchased Natural Pastures Cheeses as the grand prizes awarded to the winners. Spectators and competitors were treated to pure luscious taster samples served personally by Edgar Smith, President and Mary Ann Hyndman Smith. Read more The sweet heat of wasabi gives this B.C. hybrid a polite kick
Globe and Mail, November 19, 2008 ...Award-winning hybrid of cheddar, Dutch gouda and Swiss raclette. Adding the sweet and piquant flavour of locally grown wasabi to this cheese gives every bite an extra kick. But in true Canadian style, the fire is kept politely in check. Verdelait ...is a new style of cheese created ... at Natural Pastures Cheese. Edgar Smith, president of Natural Pastures, considers wasabi a delicacy... requires very specific growing conditions. The Smith family started growing it in the forests on their farm (Beaver Meadow Farms in the Comox Valley) about 15 years ago, discovering that wasabi loves the West Coast climate and wet soils. "Wasabi has a little bit of heat to it and it has a sweetness," Mr. Smith says. "It combines exceptionally well with West Coast seafood, smoked salmon and oysters in the half shell." Read more… News Releases2009Natural Pastures Cheeses are Champions Again!
October 6, 2009 COURTENAY, B.C. Natural Pastures Cheeses are new Champions of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) cheese competition, confirming the delicious premier qualities of their world-class artisan cheeses. Earning top awards in each category entered, Natural Pastures was also judged “Overall Champion Cheese” by the panel of experts. Comox Brie ranked the highest in PNE’s 2009 competition of soft ripened artisan cheeses, affirming Natural Pastures pinnacle World Championship Gold Medal awarded by the expert panel of 22 international judges of the 27th biennial World Cheese Contest (WCC). More Info 2008
Natural Pastures featured on CTV News “Taste of Home” with Tamara TaggartWatch Tamara’s visit to our cheese plant as our master cheesemaker Paul Sutter demonstrates how we make our delicious Mozzarella di Bufala. Natural Pastures first on the Island to produce a world champion cheese.Comox Valley Echo – Tuesday, April 1, 2008 The best brie in the world is produced right here in the Comox Valley. “We start with good milk from the Valley and then we really just put a lot of effort into making a nice, beautiful cheese.” Photos and read more. Natural Pastures earns international acclaimBusiness Vancouver Island, April 2008 issue. Read more. Natural Pastures Cheeses are World Championship Gold and Silver Medallists!COURTENAY, BC – April 1, 2008 Natural Pastures Cheese Comox Brie recently earned the pinnacle World Championship Gold Medal, in the 27th biennial Contest (WCC). As the first World Championship cheese ever produced from Vancouver Island and first WCC gold medal Brie ever from western Canada, Natural Pastures Cheese Company’s reputation as a premier Canadian cheese producer is strengthened. Read more. 2007Natural Pastures wins Ten New National Awards!COURTENAY, BC – December 14, 2007 Expert judges recently conferred ten new national awards to Natural Pastures Cheeses from the Comox Valley, including a coveted win at the British Empire Cheese Competition hosted by the Central Ontario Cheesemaker Association. Natural Pastures Mozzarella di Bufala is the third place winner of the Class 12 category, Pasta Filata Type of the 2007 British Empire competition, judged with large, leading cheese companies’ entries. This is a brand new mozzarella for Canada, as it is the only mozzarella made from the only Canadian herd of water buffalo raised at Fairburn Farms in Duncan. Read more. Island Fresh – Comox Valley food producers receiving national attentionTimes Colonist — September 2, 2007 Local ingredients enhance chef Bishop’s visitComox Valley Record — August 29, 2007 See the menu from John Bishop’s Book Launch Luncheon on August 22, 2007. la nouvelle ProvenceBC Business magazine, June 2007 Cheese-maker Smith is much more positive about the Provence message. He was one of the first to raise the idea after Eric Akis, the Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper’s food columnist, described the east coast of the Island as “the new Provence.” “I’ve been to Provence,” Smith says. “We have the same pristine and pure soils, the Mediterranean climate and the coastal, salt-laden winds.” Comox also has a unique terroir, the flavour of the soil that comes through in the food, be it milk or grapes. Smith says it is the terroir that has won his cheeses numerous medals. “What we don’t have is the same relationship between the farmers and consumers,” Smith continues. “Few restaurants buy locally. Little of our produce is stocked on store shelves. Processing of our produce isn’t done locally.” That is about to change, Read more… Curdling till the buffalo come home Cinda Chavich DUNCAN, B.C. — The orb of pristine cheese in Paul Sutter's hand is soft and shiny, the picture of youth in the cheese world. "It's very delicate at this point," says the Courtenay, B.C., cheese maker, cradling the day-old white mozzarella in his palm like an oversized poached egg. This cheese is like any good ball of fresh Italian bocconcini, but it's the first artisan buffalo-milk mozzarella commercially made in Canada. It's moist on the inside, with the typical striated layers created by stretching the warmed mass of freshly coagulated curds. It's encased in a tight, thin skin, formed when the cheese is pulled and hand-pinched into a neat round ball. Read more… 2006Comox Valley Tourism’s annual Land of Plenty AwardFrom Comox Valley Tourism, April 4, 2006 Sponsored by the North Vancouver Island Chef’s Association The winner of the 2005 Land of Plenty Award has done more to put the Comox Valley on the map in recent years than any of us could have ever imagined. They have won awards the world over for promoting the things that many of us take for granted — amazing air, land and water quality that produces high quality artisan food for the world to enjoy. This company has also been active in promoting agri-investment, agri-tourism and culinary tourism initiatives in the Comox Valley. Through their actions they have encouraged others to embrace locally produced foods as a way to celebrate our community and support the local economy. They source as many of their ingredients as possible locally and their products have been featured on cheeseboards at the House of Parliament and Rideau Hall. They represent the kind of innovation and creativity that will continue to put the Comox Valley on the culinary map. This year’s winner of the new Land of Plenty Award is Natural Pastures Cheese Company. 2005 Natural Pastures wins at Royal Agricultural Winter Fair! COURTENAY, B.C. – Natural Pastures Cheese Company from the Comox Valley has won ten more prestigious awards at the 2005 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. Natural Pastures Cracked Pepper Verdelait placed first in its open category and is the Reserve Champion of the entire 2005 variety cheese competition. Comox Camembert and Comox Brie are the 2005 winners of second and third respectively in the soft cheese category of Canada’s largest and well-known Agricultural Fair. Also winning awards in the top of their categories are Cumin Verdelait (2nd), Pacific Pepper (3rd) made with local Paper Lantern habanero peppers and La Scala (5th). Natural Pastures cheeses are winners of five of all eight awards in the open category; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th. What a delicious sweep! These recent Royal Fair awards continue Natural Pastures Cheese’s winning tradition, adding to previous awards for a total of 26 national and international awards 2002-2005. Many of Natural Pastures’ delicious cheeses are gold medal winners of the prestigious biannual Canadian Grand Prix Cheese competitions (2002 and 2004) and Comox Camembert is the 4th place winner of the 2004 World Cheese Championship. You’re invited to savour pure winners! 2004 Two 1st place Awards at British Empire Show November 26, 2004 - Another clean sweep for Natural Pastures Cheese Company as they win two further 1st place awards at the esteemed 77th annual British Empire Cheese Show. On this occasion it was their Amsterdammer, in the Semi Firm category and their Garlic and Chives Verdelait in the Flavoured Firm category that stole the show. Seven Awards at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. Natural Pastures win several more prestigious awards at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. Judging carried out at Canada's largest and well known Agricultural Fair recognized seven award winning cheeses crafted by our Swiss Master Cheesemaker. BC’s Natural Pastures Cheese WORTH ITS TASTE IN GOLD COMOX CAMEMBERT FOURTH IN THE WORLD Events & Marketing Activity CORNUCOPIA – WHISTLER'S FOOD & WINE CELEBRATION NOVEMBER 9–13, 2005 Natural Pastures Cheese Company will be participating in Whistler’s most exciting food and wine festival again for a third year, to showcase and promote Natural Pastures’ world-class, award-winning artisan cheeses amidst an exciting lineup of talent, including wine experts and celebrity chefs. You’re invited to sample—and savour—Natural Pastures delicious cheeses at Cornucopia’s events. DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA'S FIRST CANADIAN CHEESE FAIR WESTIN HOTEL, CALGARY ON OCTOBER 12, 2004 Natural Pastures Cheese Co will be attending the first canadian Cheese Fair hosted by the Dairy Farmers of Canada. We look forward to this new event and the opportunity to showcase our products and meet with influential clientele from the Cheese Industry.
CANADIAN CHEESE FAIR NATURAL PASTURES CHEESE COMPANY SPONSOR "THE COOLEST CAT IN COMOX" It seemed only fitting that Natural Pastures Cheese Company were one of four sponsors for the new Olympic Tornado "Wine & Cheese". The twin-hull catermeran was launched on Sunday, May 16, 2004 at a wine and cheese reception attended by Comox Mayor Jim Brass in Comox. After a traditional champagne christening by the Mayor, the Olympic Tornado was put through its paces by brothers Stuart and Andrew Robinson in front of the media and VIP's who had been taken out in a Comox Valley Adventures Zodiac to get close to the action. . . read on |
