Friends! 👉🏻 Don't miss the program and directions to the Istra Cheese Festival 🧀! There are only a couple of days left until the main summer farmers' fair! 👆🏻 The festival begins this Friday, August 3rd.

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The fully up-to-date program is available here (it is subject to change):

In short, YOU ARE WAITING FOR:

✔ 30 tons of amazing farm cheese and other products brought by almost 200 farms and cheese dairies from all over Russia!

✔ Saturated business program on Friday. Entrepreneurs will share their knowledge and experience on how to open your own cheesy startup and make it successful, how to get grants and not go bankrupt in the first year of work! Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Investment of the Moscow Region will tell you how to get support and subsidies. And if you are inspired to start your own business, then our participants will introduce you to the numerous agricultural equipment that will be presented at our exhibition!

✔ You can take part in setting two real RECORDS at once! Yes Yes! This year we will write ourselves into the history of the “Russian Book of Records” by preparing a unique “All-Russian Farm Pizza” 🍕!

✔ Lots of master classes for both adults and children! We will teach you how to cook cheese dishes, paint gingerbread, teach you pottery and candle making and much more!

The first All-Russian Cheese Festival will take place from 3 to 5 August at the site of the Northern Square at VDNKh. More than 50 manufacturers from all over Russia will present their own products here. Guests of the holiday will be able to taste and buy their favorite cheeses, as well as attend various master classes and lectures.

The cheese festival in the Crafts Park at VDNKh has already become a traditional event and is very popular among Muscovites and guests of the capital. Each time the number of its participants and guests grows, therefore, in the first days of August, the festival will be held at a new site - in the Northern Park, near pavilion No. 75 of VDNH EXPO. Visitors will have the opportunity to get acquainted with products from more than 20 regions of Russia - from the Pskov region to Altai.

The main tent of the festival will host a fair, where visitors will find such varieties as mozzarella, halloumi and feta, blue cheeses - gorgonzola, stilton and valance; with noble white mold - camembert, brie and saint-marselen; semi-hard and hard - gruyere, gouda, cheddar, cheeses with fenugreek, pepper, garlic and herbs and many others.

A large educational program has been prepared in the Tent of Knowledge: interactive excursions, culinary master classes, lectures, and classes in the preparation of a variety of cheeses. Cooking classes will include chalet pasta, salad with apple mousse and grilled halloumi cheese, and cheese sweets. Various tastings will also take place here, such as "Coffee and Cheese" and an interactive discussion "Farm and Industrial Cheese". For the young guests, the organizers have prepared a special program - they will see the play "Crow with Cheese", mini-classes on drawing a cheese still life and much more.

During the day, invited DJs will be responsible for the musical accompaniment, and in the evenings on the main stage of the festival, guests will enjoy live concerts.

Among other things, the festival will host the II annual competition " Best Cheese Russia ". Representatives of the FACE network of European farm and artisan cheese and dairy producers will evaluate the cheeses presented at the festival in nine nominations. According to the results of the competition, the winners will be awarded on the main stage of the festival on August 5 at 15:00.

The detailed program of the festival can be found here.

PLACE: VDNKh, Severny Square (open area between the entrances "Sever-1" and "Sever-3").
TIME: from 3 to 5 August 2018.
PRICE: admission is free, participation in the activities of the educational program is free. Tasting "Coffee and cheese" - for a fee.
ORGANIZERS: Association "Guild of Cheese Makers", School of Cheese Making Olesya Shevchuk, Crafts Park and JSC "VDNKh".

At the festival "National Unity Day", which will be held in Moscow from 3 to 5 November, guests will be able to taste and purchase the most delicious and quality products, for which the Russian regions are famous.

On the way from Manezhnaya Square to Revolution Square, you should definitely look at the festival Fish fair... Traditionally gastronomic festivals cycle "Moscow Seasons", it will unfold in large open tents.

It will be very difficult to leave without a purchase, because visitors will be offered fish, seafood and seafood for every taste - more than 120 items in total. Mackerel, halibut, trout, sterlet, dorada, sea bass, sturgeon steaks, flounder, salmon, capelin, haddock, cod, catfish, ruff, carp, silver carp, carp, catfish, pike, red mullet, kalkan, pike perch, omul, muksun, Herring“ iwashi” ... And also shrimps, crabs, squids, scallop meat and caviar!

No time to cook? Take a closer look at semi-finished products: fish burgers and cutlets, as well zrazam and dumplings with fish... Or, for example, choose a delicious smoked fish!

In the neighborhood, directly on the Manezhnaya Square itself will unfold Cheese fair... Visitors will find both familiar varieties and bright cheese novelties!

For example, Oleg Sirota's Istra cheese dairy will debut with Poshekhonsky cheese- it revival of traditional Soviet recipe 1962 year... You can try and compare with the taste familiar from childhood!

Cheese with noble mold prepared according to Italian and English recipes will be brought to the festival from other districts of the Moscow region: tender Gorgonzola dolce, spicy Gorgonzola picante, unusual in its taste young Stilton cheese(will appeal to those who are just starting to get acquainted with cheeses with blue mold and those who appreciate delicate, delicate tastes), and the original Gorgonzola special(spicy spicy cheese aged for about a year especially for connoisseurs of the brightest tastes).

A small farm of Vadim Khrestin from the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow region, will bring seasoned hard cheeses who have been ripening in cellars for more than a year and a half... Such cheeses are quite capable of competing with the Swiss Gruyere and Italian Parmesan!

Alexey Burkov's Moscow farm will present fresh dairy products from New Moscow.

And already traditional for city gastronomic festivals Moscow cheese candy will surely become a memorable gift for family and friends!

Fresh ricotta and aromatic goat cheeses everyday will bring you from the Moscow region Lobnya. And from the Kaluga region, from dairy farms on which cows are milked by super-modern robots Also, the freshest milk, cottage cheese and cheeses will be delivered to the festival every day.

Cheese makers from the regions farther from the capital are also prepared to surprise!

Belper knolle melted in baked milk will be brought from the Samara region. This is a cheese made according to Swiss technology - but with the author's modifications. For example, at the festival it will be possible to purchase Belper knolle with sumac (a genus of shrub) and lavender as well as Roqueforty blue mold.

Farmers from the Tambov region will delight cheeses in hay and rye bran aged in linden barrels, and cheese with horseradish leaf juice and fresh mozzarella.

From Kaliningrad will deliver a fragrant tilsitter from old cellars built for this cheese more than 200 years ago: earlier this region was called Tilsit-Ragnit, and now the city of Sovetsk, Kaliningrad region, is located there.

From the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic to the Moscow festival will bring for the first time fresh cheeses prepared according to the recipes traditional for this region.

Cheese makers from the Sverdlovsk region will present hard - like the Ural Mountains! - as well as semi-hard cheese.

Moreover, the farmers participating in the festival promise a large selection. goat cheese different aroma, hardness and degree of moldiness!