An Insider's Guide to the California Artisan Cheese Festival

An Insider's Guide to the California Artisan Cheese Festival

If you're a Bay Area resident, consider yourself lucky to live in the backyard of pioneering artisan American cheesemakers. While not all local cheese producers are open to the public, many of the legendary ones—Laura Chenel, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Cowgirl Creamery, and Cypress Grove, among them—participate in the annual California Artisan Cheese Festival and even hold behind-the-scenes tours. One of the longest-running artisan cheese fes…