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A Kosher-Keeping Dairy Lover Finds Hope in the Supermarket-Jewish Daily Forward

Cheese and Thank You
A Kosher-Keeping Dairy Lover Finds Hope in the Supermarket
By Leah Koenig
Published May 20, 2009, issue of May 29, 2009.
The Jewish Daily Forward

Blame my Midwestern roots, or the 10 years I’ve spent as a vegetarian, but no single category of food can make me swoon like cheese. I have been known to devour a block of cheddar, sliver by salty sliver, over the course of an afternoon. And when Shavuot rolls around — celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, the season’s first fruits and all things dairy — my heart and kitchen fill with unbridled, cheesy joy. So imagine the blow to the belly I experienced upon realizing that koshering my kitchen when I got married required me to leave behind my favorite fromages. A trip down the kosher dairy aisle only deepened my distress.

DOWN IN OLD KENTUCKY- OU CERTIFIED BLUEGRASS DAIRY HITS THE FINISH LINE FIRST AT THE kENTUCKY STATE FAIR

Reprinted with permission of the Orthodox Union- Behind the Kosher Symbol
In what may be considered the Kentucky Derby of cheese competitions, OU kosher-certified cheese manufactured by Bluegrass Dairy & Food/Glasgow Division of Glasgow, KY recently won first place gold in all three classes at the Kentucky State Fair for its Natural Cheddar(Wilderness Trails brand) and its NaturalGouda (Bluegrass Dairy & Food brand).And to prove that Bluegrass thrives far from its old Kentucky home, its Colby