The California Cheese & Butter Association has secured convention locations for the next two years! So, mark you calendars now for great educational and social experience. The 2000 California Cheese & Butter Convention will be held May 4,5, & 6, 2000 at Lake Arrowhead Resort, Lake Arrowhead, California. The convention chair is Barry Zuroff of Horizon Sales Corporation 714.979.4844. The 2001 convention will be held April 19, 29 & 21, 2001 at the Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley, California. The convention chair has not been announced. Any volunteers? At the last California Cheese & Butter Association Board Meeting, it was voted in by the board and officers to increase in the year 2000 and all future scholarships to $2000.00. The first increased scholarship will go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. CCBA would like to thank Norseland, Inc., Rondele Specialty Foods and Sonoma Cheese Factory for their continued support of the scholarship fund and everyone’s help in making |
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The Newsletter
of the California Cheese & Butter Association
Issue 11 July, 1999 this possible. The CCBA 1998-1999 recipient from University of California at Davis, Tom Trezza is a Ph.D. candidate majoring in Food Science. He is doing research with Dr. John Krochta on surface chemistry and the adhesion of degradable polymers utilizing dairy ingredients to foods and packaging. Congratulations! Tom Trezza has offered anyone from CCBA a tour of the school labs and the pilot plant. Call the CCBA office for details. Go Brokers! Norseland, Inc., has awarded two of their most prestigious awards to California Brokers. Normark & Associates received the 1998 "Jarlsberg Cheese", Broker of the Year Award. Allan Baum was presented with the award at Norseland’s "Norwegian Cheese" Award ceremony in Oslo, Norway on June 13, 1999. Select Trade Sales received the 1998 "Boursin Cheese" Broker of the Year Award. Bob Austin was presented the award at Norseland’s "Boursin Cheese" award ceremony in Normandy, France on June 18, 1999. Congratulations! Butter Mooos California lost it’s crown in the buttermaking ranking. Wisconsin is now number one. California has had the crown since 1993. There was a drop in butter production due to a huge demand for cream to make ice cream. It has been an unusually hot season for most of the nation this year. Thank mooo for this information go to: Dairy Production Extra and Tom Ditto of Challenge Dairy Products, Inc. The American Heart Association is taking a conservative stance on the new cholesterol-cutting spreads. The AHA nutrition committee doubts consumers will use enough of the spreads to get any significant results. A healthy diet and exercise program help lower cholesterol. Stay tuned. Thank moo to The Cheese Reporter for this moos. Jack Prince, the former CEO of Dairyman’s Cooperative Creamery Association - which merged into Land O’Lakes in 1998 - has been named the COO of the Dairy Foods Group, with primary responsibilities for the company’s nationwide milk procurement and dairy manufacturing system. Congratulations Jack!. If you have any news like this about our members please forward it to the California Cheese & Butter Association office. We like to share! |
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member companies have renewed their memberships for 1999. If you have not renewed
please do so! Advantage-Billings, *Alta-Dena Dairy, *BC-USA, Inc., *Beatrice Foods, BelGioioso Cheese, Inc., Besnier USA, Boggeri Company, Inc., *California Milk Advisory Board, *Certified Grocers of California, Challenge Dairy Products Inc., Columbus Distributing, Dairyman’s Division of Land O’ Lakes, *Dan Carter Inc., Darigold Inc., *Deli Council of Northern California, DPI Dairy Fresh Products Inc., Dudley Food Sales, F & A Cheese Corporation, *Gavilan, Kennett-Roepke, Golden Cheese Company of California, Hilmar Cheese Company, Horizon Sales Corporation, *JTJ Sales, John J. Wollak Co. Inc., *Keller’s Creamery, Land O’ Lakes, Inc., Laura Chenel’s Chevre, Inc., Marketing Specialists, Masson Cheese Corporation, Mike Hudson Distributing, Inc., *Nasser Co., Inc., Normark & Associates, Norseland Inc., *Pacific Cheese, Raley’s, *Ralph’s Grocery Company, *Raskas Foods, Inc., Ritz FoodService, Rumiano Cheese Co., Sales Mark - Southern California, Sargento Foods, *Select Trade Sales & Marketing, Schreiber Foods, Inc., Sonoma Cheese Factory, Sorrento Cheese Company, Saputo Cheese USA, Inc., Talamo Foods, Inc., Tillamook Food Sales, *The Milk Pail Market and Tony’s Fine Foods. Thank you for your support. * Denotes new member! Cheese Mooos Cheese demand has been growing significantly over the last few years and retail cheese sales through late April were ahead of sales a year earlier.
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Dairy sales have outpaced total store and dry grocery sales for the past two years! Go CHEESE! In a recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, scientists debated the effects different kinds of fatty acids in butter and margarine have on cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease. They conclude that on a per-gram basis, the adverse effect of margarine’s trans fatty acids appears to be stronger than that of butter’s saturated fatty acids in relation to coronary heart disease! Thank mooo to "The Butter Guy" for forwarding this article! Please feel free to call our office for any reason. California Cheese & Butter Association Don’t forget to check out the California Cheese & Butter Association website at: www.cacheeseandbutter.org or email us at: radha@cacheeseandbutter.org Any misspellings, misinformation, or great copy, are the sole responsibility of the editor. Suggestions, additions, or comments are GLADLY received. I would appreciate anything mooosworthy!! Radha
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In the wake of the National Cheese Institute’s
pending proposal to alter raw milk cheesemaking practices in the United States, the American
Cheese Society sponsored along with Traci des Jardins of Jardiniere
restaurant in San Francisco, created a forum, featuring a panel of cheese and dairy
specialists, to discuss "Raw Milk Cheese: Does it Have a Future in the United
States?" (June 16th, 1999) It is one of four such sessions the American
Cheese Society plans to sponsor to educate people about the right to choose between
pasteurized and unpasteurized milk during production. This issue had been a debate of The Codex
Alimentarius, a commission to set safe and fair global trade practices. The impact
mandatory pasteurization would have on the specialty food industry would be crisis level
for small scale cheese producers. Just because it is pasteurized, does not mean it is
safe. The MOOOS will continue to bring you updates on this issue. Thank mooo to Lisa
Wolff of Gourmet Retailer and Debra Dickerson for this information. 
