{"id":17118,"date":"2014-08-01T02:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T09:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T09:29:38","slug":"california-brings-home-the-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-brings-home-the-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"California Brings Home the Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cheeseplz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sacramento hosts the American Cheese Society <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sacramento-cheese-festival.html\">Festival of Cheeses<\/a> this week at Sacramento Convention Center and on August 1, 2014 there&#8217;s a rare opportunity to taste the best cheeses&#8211;over 1,500 of them! The winners of this year&#8217;s cheese competition were announced on July 31 and California cheeses came in 2nd place and 3rd place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Cheeses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEST OF SHOW: Tarentaise Reserve from Farms for City Kids Foundation in Vermont<\/li>\n<li>2ND PLACE: Point Reyes Bay Blue from Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company,\u00a0California<\/li>\n<li>3RD PLACE TIE: Aged Gouda from Oakdale Cheese\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Specialties,\u00a0California, and Eden from Sprout Creek Farm,\u00a0New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you miss this event, mark your calendars for next year&#8217;s 9th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-cheese-festival.html\">California\u2019s Artisan Cheese Festival<\/a>\u00a0March 20 \u2013 22, 2015 in Petaluma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento hosts the American Cheese Society Festival of Cheeses this week at Sacramento Convention Center and on August 1, 2014 there&#8217;s a rare opportunity to taste the best cheeses&#8211;over 1,500 of them! The winners of this year&#8217;s cheese competition were announced on July 31 and California cheeses came in 2nd place and 3rd place. Top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}