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Colwick cheese at Artisan Cheese Fair

03/05/2012

An ancient Cheese is to be revived at the first cheese festival to be held in the East Midlands. Colwick cheese from the village just south east of Nottingham is said to have been invented by John Clarkson who was buried in the local cemetery in 1645. The cheese was also made in Leicestershire in the Vale of Belvoir. The fresh cream cheese has a unique bowl like shape into which fruit, cream or jam was place the whole, including the cheese, being eaten for afternoon tea. Sadly the cheese died out in the 1990s.

The Artisan Cheese Fair will feature two Nottinghamshire cheesemakers, Colston Bassett Dairy and Cropwell Bishop Dairy, both of whom make Stilton and other cheeses, and two Leicestershire Stilton Makers in Tuxford & Tebbutt and Long Clawson, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The fair is being sponsored by the Stilton Cheese Makers Association. Sparkenhoe Red Leicester which was revived five years ago will also feature at the event. A delegation of 21 members of the Japanese Cheese Importers Association are also attending the event. Cheese Fairs were a regular feature in Melton Mowbray starting with the 1883 Stilton Cheese Fair.

The Artisan Cheese Fair is being held this weekend 11-12 June in the exhibition halls at the Cattle Market in Melton Mowbray from 10am - 4pm. Entry is just £1. Visitors will get to taste a range of cheeses from across the country including some of the UK's rarest cheeses which are now protected under European Law.

www.artisancheesefair.co.uk

 

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