Something To Nibble On

The World Cheese Awards are held by The Guild of Fine Food in the UK. They are held in conjunction with the BBC Good Food Show.  This year’s awards are underway now, Nov 24 – 28, with the judging having taken place place yesterday (Nov 24).

What makes these awards different to most cheese shows is that judging takes place in front of live audience. Most cheese judging is conducted separate to any other event and in controlled circumstances (temperature, noise, odour) to ensure that judges can concentrate on the cheese.

After the first round of judging the gold medal cheeses are judged again by another team of judges. These are then judged by a 12 person Supreme Jury to determine the World Champion cheese.

Although I have not seen the full list of 2010 awards, The Guardian newspaper has an article today on The Cornish Cheese Company’s win with Cornish Blue.

Here is a link to the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/25/cornish-blue-world-cheese-awards

Sometime ago I set up Google alerts to receive a daily email on all things cheese in the news each day. Today’s email highlighted an article on Warrnambool Cheese’s implementation of a computer system called JD Edwards. I was pleased to see that the IT company that was originally involved in the implementation of the system was the company that I work for Oakton.  The article quotes Warrnambool’s project manager ICT Ian Spencer as saying “Cost savings and better quality products are two of the benefits which come from the additional knowledge data.”

Hmmm, maybe Oakton will have another project with a cheesy company. At least they know there is one project manager that is eager to volunteer!