The 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest will be held at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center from March 16th-18th — and this year you can do more than watch the professionals taste and spit their way through scores of cheese samples.
From 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 17th, Wisconsin Cheese Originals is sponsoring “a once-in-a-lifetime event to sample and compare 15 unique, rare, international cheeses vs. their Wisconsin artisan counterparts, side by side” at Monona Terrace. Tickets to this tasting event are $20 and include an opportunity to “meet 30 cheese judges representing six continents, as well as 11 award-winning artisan Wisconsin cheesemakers.”
This event is definitely not as cheap as enjoying the free tastings available by a slow stroll through your local Brennan’s Market or Whole Foods Market, but it undoubtedly offers more varieties, bigger chunks of cheese, and less need for surreptitious sneaking of second samples.
Tickets for this event must be purchased in advance through the Wisconsin Cheese Originals website
