About Cheese Culture

Cheese is an ancient, iconic food, at once enjoyable, compelling and complex. It is a link to our agricultural past and present, and expresses tastes of place, transformed by traditional craft and natural processes. Cheese delights our senses and challenges our discernment and vocabulary. How can we best appreciate and describe cheese's memorable flavours?What distinguishes a superb cheese from an ordinary one?

Cheese Culture's classes, events and services reflect the enthusiasm and authority of cheese and wine specialist Julia Rogers and her team of collaborators, including chefs, sommeliers and servers. Call on Cheese Culture for:

Private and Corporate Events

wine and cheese catering
creative and educational tastings
unique activities for team-building
experiences that thank employees and clients in an entertaining and distinctive way.

Professional Consultation and Education Services

training retail and food service staff in cheese appreciation and presentation
designing and executing cheese-focused events in retail or food service establishments
providing sourcing and merchandising assistance
promoting cheese and select specialty foods through strategic educational presentations and events.

Julia Rogers

Julia Rogers has an extensive knowledge of food and food lore, gathered through studying, teaching and traveling. She is passionate about cheese and dedicated to sharing her discoveries with others. Years of tasting, encounters with cheese makers, and diverse retail, catering and consulting experience have given her a thorough understanding of cheese history, flavours, and production. Her engaging and eloquent presentations allow the public, caterers, sommeliers and restaurateurs to better appreciate cheese, and to enhance their personal enjoyment and professional effectiveness.

Julia is an active member of the Ontario Cheese Society, the Societé des Fromages du Québec, and the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers, participating in local and international events. She writes for Food and Drink , and is a Diploma candidate with the internationally recognized Wine and Spirit Education Trust.