Archives Straight from the Vat!

On Friday, November 6th, Prince Charles toured the Brick Works project and also visited the Farmer’s Market!  He stopped to talk to several vendors including Fifth Town.  Dave Smyth, our farmer’s market rep at Evergreen was there to tell the Prince all about Fifth Town. He apparently sampled the cheeses and then asked “how much” for a piece of Bonnie & Floyd. Dave told him $9. Turns out His Majesty likes sheep milk cheese.  The Prince then turned to Minister Jim Flaherty to see if he could spot him a $10 to buy the cheese.  Luckily, he had some “stimulus funds” in his pocket!  Where ever you are now Prince Charles, we hope you enjoyed the cheese!

When you hear the term “remix culture”, many people think first of urban dance halls, R & B and hip hop artists. Yet, people have been remixing music since the beginnings of recorded sound.  Initially, remix techniques were used to create new “arrangements” for well known classical pieces. And later, remix appeared in the form of some of those 70’s pop medleys we (Think Boney M) all listened to in some cases with disdain!  Today however, remixing is an accepted true art form which creatively deconstructs and rebuilds content or other mediums to suit the unique tastes of a specific audience.  The techniques themselves are original and craft based.  As noted in Wikipedia, great remix artists have a deep understanding of the meta structure of music-or whatever content they work with- and have a gift for non-linear interpretation of a given work or set of works.  Slate magazine called it “real-time, live-action collage”.

So what does this have to do with cheese making?