Unique Experiences
Cheesemaker Apprentice for a Day at Beecher's Handmade Cheese, NYC
- Item Number
- 185
- Estimated Value
- 350 USD
- Sold
- 516 USD to Chrisinatlanta
- Number of Bids
- 21 - Bid History
Item Description
Our cheesemaking kitchens, in Seattle's Pike Place Market and the Flatiron District in New York, are living museums where visitors witness the 5,000 year old art of making cheese combined with a 21st century commitment to quality and purity.
At the Beecher's Handmade Cheese shops in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market and New York's Flatiron District, visitors press their noses against the windows to witness a vat of creamy white milk transformed by the expert hands of the cheesemaker. They watch as curds materialize from the milk, and then knit together to create a fine artisanal cheese. Although he is aided in the process by simple machinery, the cheesemaker is crafting cheese using the same techniques that have been used for 5,000 years.
Lunch will be provided in our café. And each guest will be treated with a Beecher's Assortment of goodies to take home. A cheese lover since childhood, Kurt Beecher Dammeier remembers encouraging his mother to buy premium cheese at a time when processed cheese was overtaking the market; and he recalls his great-grandfather, whose first name was Beecher, purchasing Stilton by the wheel.
In his college years at Washington State University, well known for its agricultural programs, Kurt was able to learn about the process of making artisan cheese. Then in 2002, he decided to combine his love of great cheese and passion for pure food and the idea for Beecher's Handmade Cheese was born.
The winner of this prize will spend the day with a guest in Beecher's cheese making kitchen learning about and participating in the cheese making process from start to finish.
Item Special Note
Redeemable Fridays and Saturdays only.
Valid beginning October 1st.
Auction lot is for two adults only.
No refunds or exchanges.
Subject to 8.875% NY State Sales Tax.
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