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"From Cow to Cheese" ITV Thames Valley - 10th December 2008 Presenters Hannah and Simon visit the dairy and try their hand at making Barkham Blue. Please click on the link below to see how they fared! www.itvlocal.com/meridian/news ---------- "The Great British Cheeses Blog" Dorling Kindersley's blogacheese review - 20 October2008 Blogacheese, the website dedicated to all things cheese. Blogacheese is for people who want to discuss, celebrate and champion the best cheeses. for reviews on Barkham Blue: www.blogacheese.com/cheese-tag/barkham-blue ---------- "It's not easy being the big cheese" Article from the Mail on Sunday - 9th October 2008 ---------- "Who's the big cheese?" Article from Southeast Food Group ---------- "British Cheese Awards" Cardiff Castle and the Millenium Stadium - September 2008 The results - British Cheese Awards 2008 Extract from our local Hampshire Fare press release:
"Local cheese sweeps the board at British Cheese Awards 2008"
Made by family run Two Hoots Cheese, in Barkham, Wokingham, Barkham Blue is described as a sweet, spicy blue with a peppery aromatic taste. It had to beat off competition from another 909 cheeses to win the top prize as this year saw anotherrecord number of entries. Two Hoots is run by Sandy and Andy Rose, who said: “It hasn’t really sunk in yet! As you can imagine we were over the moon when the awards were announced. We have had our hearts set on winning “Best Blue” for a number of years and would have been really happy with that, but they just kept coming!” As Juliet Harbutt, founder of the British Cheese Awards, put it: "Undoubtedly one of the most interesting, charming and more-ish cheeses I have tasted in a long time." In total, 317 specialities were awarded medals. “It has been another record World Cheese Awards 2008 Success keeps coming as at The World Cheese Awards, held in Dublin on 30 September, Two Hoots were also awarded Gold medals for their Barkham Blue and Barkham Chase cheeses, |
breaking year with our highest number of entries,” said Juliet. “With record numbers of cheeses reaching medal winning status it's safe to say that the British cheese industry is consistently creating world beating products.”