Blue cheese made world champion
A Cornish cheese company is celebrating being crowned world champion.
Cornish Blue beat off competition from more than 2,000 others at the World Cheese Awards and is the first British winner in a decade.
An estimated 40 tonnes of cheeses were judged by 150 experts from around the globe. A supreme jury of 12 experts announced the winner.
Philip Stansfield, from the Cornish Cheese Company, said he was stunned at the award.
'Can't believe it'
Mr Stansfield said the cheese - produced at Knowle Farm at Upton Cross, near Liskeard - came about as a way of using unsold milk.
He said he "just couldn't move" when the winner was announced.
He said: "The chap I was next to me said: 'It's you.'
"I said: 'I know it's me, but I just can't believe it'."
Mr Stansfield the cheese was developed after considering "what ladies would like".
He said: "We thought the ladies do most of the buying, so if we do a cheese that they like, we might be on to a winner."
County tourism officials added they hoped the commercial value of the award would be felt beyond just the farm's gates.
Malcolm Bell, from Visit Cornwall, said: "What it will do is raise the profile of not just Cornwall but British food and drink."
The company, which employs five people, is already exporting the winning cheese to America, Japan and Kuwait.
It said it hoped the award would help it gain more international business.
The awards took place at the BBC Good Food Show, which was held at the NEC Birmingham at the end of November.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12085526
Cornish Blue the best in the world
Cornish Blue the best in the world
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Cornish Blue the best in the world
Intelligent people would look at a lump of cheese that has mould growing on it and have the common sense to throw it out.
It doesn’t have to be cheese either. If it has acquired the signs of alien life forms, it has to go.
I like cheese. I once purchased a massive wheel of extra old cheddar because the taste and price were the convergence of necessity.
I miss Swiss, I pine for provolone, emmental would be swell and for Gruyere I despair.
But I can cheese no more, but I am not blue over bleu.
It doesn’t have to be cheese either. If it has acquired the signs of alien life forms, it has to go.
I like cheese. I once purchased a massive wheel of extra old cheddar because the taste and price were the convergence of necessity.
I miss Swiss, I pine for provolone, emmental would be swell and for Gruyere I despair.
But I can cheese no more, but I am not blue over bleu.
A sufficiently copious dose of bombast drenched in verbose writing is lethal to the truth.
Re: Cornish Blue the best in the world
I love bleu cheese...I have a real weakness for it...I can knock out a four ounce portion with a box of melba ovals at a single sitting if I don't control myself....
But...
Cornish bleu cheese?
I thought the only thing they produced were game hens....
ETA:
I see from the article that the winner was very gracious to the losers:
But...
Cornish bleu cheese?
I thought the only thing they produced were game hens....
ETA:
I see from the article that the winner was very gracious to the losers:
With 2000 competitors, that must have taken quite a while....Cornish Blue beat off competition
Re: Cornish Blue the best in the world
Ok. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are... 
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer-
Arthur Schopenhauer-
Re: Cornish Blue the best in the world
I damn near pissed myself, respect Jim!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”