Cheese Workshops
Haute Goat Creamery and United Market Street held their first workshop on May 19th, 20th and 21st 2007. It was a huge success. We had 13 participants and a few “observers”.
The class was a wonderful group, full of energy and ideas. In addition to the already planned cheesemaking with Haute Goat Creamery’s goats’ milk, Emily Sanders and James Wallace brought raw cow’s milk with which we practiced our mozzarella skills. Chef Chris Wilson, of United Market Street, presented a beautiful and delicious sit-down luncheon on Saturday. Sunday lunch was tasty tapas prepared by Charlie Broz, a doctoral RHIM student at Texas Tech, who also was a student of the class. Both lunches demonstrated methods using Haute Goat Creamery’s cheeses in food preparation and presentation. Each afternoon was finished with a wine & cheese pairing by Nathan Lowe, wine consultant, Virginia Sill, cheese specialist from United Market Street, and myself.
Students’ comments include:
“This should be featured in Texas Monthly or Southern Living”
“A wonderful gastronomic experience”
“Do more classes-this was FUN”
“This class was amazing. The food was great, the wine was great, I love goats!”
“So glad you’re in Lubbock. Your passion for what you do is manifested in the quality of your products”
Special thanks go out to:
Mike Ogletree of Ogletree Productions for filming and producing a high-definition video of the weekend. Available soon!
Kelly Marble of College Flowers for the beautiful floral arrangements
Sam Miller of Napa, California (www.bountyhunterwine.com) for helping with the wine selection for the wine & cheese pairings
Nathan Lowe, local wine consultant, for helping demonstrate how to do a wine tasting and explaining the wines
Virginia Sill, cheese specialist, United Market Street, for discussing cheese tasting and describing all the cheeses (and for her participation in the class)
Sandy Ogletree and Laurie Casler for all the behind-the scenes work they did. The class wouldn’t have come off like it did without their hard work.