Cheese Tasting evening in Ely Cambridgeshire.

We were very pleased to hold a cheese tasting evening in Ely this week, with cheeses from across East Anglia,they were tasted by both Slow Food members and also local members of the public. 

Cheeses tasted at the event were the Suffolk Blue and Suffolk Gold from north of Ipswich and Baron Bigod from Fen farm Diary near Bungay in Suffolk. Cheeses from Norfolk included Mrs Temples Binham Blue and the Fielding Cottage Norfolk Mardler. 

We also tasted a lovely cheese from Lincolnshire, the Lincolnshire Poacher and Bures Essex cheese from the county of Essex. 

In all we tried eight hard and soft cheeses from across our region and plan to hold two cheese tasting evenings in 2020, one will be for Irish cheeses and another for Scottish cheeses and hope to invite producers or representatives from these countries where possible.

Slow Food has always promoted and supported superb small cheese makers in the UK and we at Slow food Anglia are very pleased to have such a wonderful range of cheeses now produced in our region.

In the years after the second world war and up to the 1990's many cheese makers ceased trading and lots of wonderful local cheeses have died out including the Cambridge milk cheese and Ely milk cheese, but in recent years many new regional cheeses have started to be produced and this is a growing trend not just in East Anglia but across the whole UK.

Slow Food International holds Slow Cheese in Italy each year and we hope to be able to send some Anglia members there this autumn.