{"id":24011,"date":"2017-03-06T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24011"},"modified":"2017-03-06T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:46:38","slug":"food-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/food-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Competitions Help Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cheeses2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On March 26, 2017 the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-cheese-festival.html\">Artisan Cheese Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Petaluma hosts Artisan Cheese Tasting and Marketplace under The Big Top at the Sheraton Sonoma County. It offers consumers the chance to taste a variety of great products in one place. $45,\u00a0artisancheesefestival.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/march-food.html\">See more March food events&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>From searching for the best ice cream to butter or cheese, you can go\u00a0to the store and take a chance, get a recommendation in a specialty shop, attend a festival, or go online and see what others are saying. One of our favorite methods of finding the finest\u00a0products and beverages is by looking at the winners of contests. Just go online and begin searching.<\/p>\n<p>Here are\u00a0California\u00a0dairy contest winners in\u00a0the\u00a0Wisconsin Dairy Product Association Contest (wdpa.net):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MOZARELLA<br \/>\n#1 Dairy Farmers of America &#8211; Turlock<\/li>\n<li>#3 Mozzarella Dairy Farmers of America &#8211; Turlock, CA<\/li>\n<li>BLUE VEINED CHEESE<br \/>\n#1 Point Reyes Original Blue | Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company | Point Reyes, CA<\/li>\n<li>LATIN AMERICAN CHEESE<br \/>\n#1 Queso Oazaca | Marquez Brothers International Inc.| Hanford, CA<\/li>\n<li>SALTED BUTTER<br \/>\n#1 80% Salted Butter | California Dairies Inc. | Visalia, CA<\/li>\n<li>UNSALTED BUTTER<br \/>\n#2 80% Unsalted Butter | California Dairies Inc. | Visalia, CA<\/li>\n<li>FLAVORED BUTTER<br \/>\n#1 Speadable Butter with Canola Oil | California Dairies Inc. | Visalia, CA<br \/>\n#3 Sheep Butter | Haverton Hill Creamery | Petaluma, CA<\/li>\n<li>LOWFAT CHOCOLATE MILK 2%<br \/>\n#2 Lowfat Chocolate Milk (2%) | Top O The Morn Farms Inc. |Tulare, CA<\/li>\n<li>OPEN FLAVOR DRINKABLE YOGURT<br \/>\n#2 Drinkable Yogurt &#8211; Mango Cereal Smoothie | Marquez Brothers International Inc. | Hanford, CA<\/li>\n<li>OPEN CLASS ICE CREAM<br \/>\n#1 Vanilla Custard &amp; Strawberry Lemon Fruit | Double Rainbow Ice Cream | San Francisco, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2017 the\u00a0Artisan Cheese Festival\u00a0in Petaluma hosts Artisan Cheese Tasting and Marketplace under The Big Top at the Sheraton Sonoma County. It offers consumers the chance to taste a variety of great products in one place. $45,\u00a0artisancheesefestival.com. See more March food events&#8230;&gt; From searching for the best ice cream to butter or cheese, [&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\/24011"}],"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=24011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}