Award-Winning American Cheese Tasting with Rebeckah Burnette

Cheese is one of those things most of us eat constantly and know surprisingly little about. This class changes that!
About this Event

Led by Rebeckah Burnette — Certified Cheese Professional and someone who has literally followed a goat shepherd through the Italian Alps — we'll be discovering why American cheeses are no joke. We'll be tasting through the highest-awarded cheeses from American creameries in this tasty class.

The evening wraps with a guided tasting of literally the best cheeses in America, paired with wine.

$50 per person | Includes cheese tastings with a wine pairing

About the educator:

Rebeckah Burnette is a Certified Cheese Professional (ACS-CCP) whose path through the world of cheese reads less like a résumé and more like a well-planned eating tour. She spent years working across nearly every facet of farmstead production at Valley Shepherd Creamery in New Jersey's Long Valley — from the make room to the aging caves to the farmers market table — before heading west to Humboldt, California, where she developed plant-based cheese alternatives for a wood-fired kitchen at Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary.

Her curiosity eventually took her to Italy, where she received a Bachelors of Science degree in Gastronomic Sciences at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) in Pollenzo — home to the biannual CHEESE festival, one of the world's foremost gatherings of artisan cheesemakers. The highlight? A summer spent with a goat shepherd in the mountains of Northwest Italy during his seasonal transhumance, supporting traditional alpeggio cheesemaking at elevation.

Today, Rebeckah brings that breadth of hands-on experience to her role as Harvest Manager at Meadowood Farms — and to the classroom, where she's as comfortable talking milk chemistry as she is recommending the perfect pairing.