Cream Cheese Festival Sept. 21 in Lowville

It's time for all things cream cheese!!

Cream Cheese Festival Sept. 16 in Lowville

It's that time of year again to celebrate everything Cream Cheese!!

The annual Cream Cheese Festival is set for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 16 in downtown Lowville, Lewis County.

Here are some of the events scheduled during this salute to cream cheese:

Games, including cream cheese Twister from 1 to 2 p.m., a cream cheese eating contest from 2 to 3 p.m., cream cheese Plinko from 4 to 5 p.m.and a cream cheese toss from 5 to 6 p.m.. There also is a mini tractor pull from 3 to 4 p.m. and all day, a cream cheese mural painting contest will be held.

The big cheesecake at a previous Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville

There also is a recipe contest and a children's discovery park filled with activities such as a zipline, rock climbing, a huge slide and a bounce house.

Bands that will be performing during the day include the Nelson Brothers Band, Doc Yukon, Mark Mason, No Vacancy, Under Cover, Shawn Corbett, Kickstand, Adapter and Gabriel Shepherd.

And remember -- the festival is home of the World's Largest Cheesecake!!

For more information, go to http://creamcheesefestival.com/index.php this link or go to the festival's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LowvilleCreamCheeseFestival/

Cream Cheese Festival Returns to Lowville for 13th Year

Here's first info coming in from Lowville on this year's Cream Cheese Festival.

Go to http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/curr/cream-cheese-festival-returning-for-13th-year-to-downtown-lowville-20170821 for all the information.

Put Sept. 17 on the Calendar for the Annual Cream Cheese Festival

It's that time of the year for the annual Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville.

Go to http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news04/cream-cheese-festival-returns-to-lowville-sept-17-20160903 to read more about it. It's coming up Sept. 17.

It's National Cheese Day!!

Today is the day to celebrate one of my favorite things -- CHEESE.

It's National Cheese Day!! According to the National Day Calendar website, National Cheese Day is observed annually June 4 and celebrates all that can be done with cheese.

According to wikipedia, "cheese is a food derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form. Some cheeses have molds on the rind or throughout. Most cheeses melt at cooking temperature."

Jewett's Cheese House outside Earlville

Just think for a moment what your life would be without cheese. That means a life with no grilled cheese sandwiches. No macaroni and cheese. No cheeseburgers. No Alfredo pasta sauce. No point of eating pasta at all (no ricottta for the lasagna!!) Cheese Danish would be a think of the past as would be -- oh, the horror -- cheesecake.

So I know I will be bowing today to all those who make cheese. And there are lots of these folks right here in New York state. There are individual cheese makers who use cows milk and goats milk to make great cheeses, like Wake Robin Farm in Elbridge and 2 Kids Goat Farm in Fabius.

Poster from last year's Cream Cheese Festival

There also are a number of cheese factories in the state that take in loads of cows milk from New York farmers to make different kinds of cheese.  

New York also has a number of cheese trails, like the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail, where people can visit various cheesemakers and taste their products, and there are cheese festivals, like the Cream Cheese Festival each year in Lowville.

Happy National Cheese Lovers Day

Today is National Cheese Lovers Day!

For me, I can't see how anyone can not love cheese. I feel badly for all those who can't eat it because of some health issue. I think I would die without cheese.

Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville Today

Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville is today.

Yum.

Cream Cheese Festival is Sept. 19 in Lowville

It's coming. Mark your calendar!

Yum. Cream cheese.

Huge Cheesecake Appears at Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville

Here's a photo posted on Newzjunky from yesterday's Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville:

The huge cheesecake from the Cream Cheese Festival.