Long Valley Cheese Maker Nominated For Garden State Culinary Arts Award

LONG VALLEY, NJ— A Long Valley creamery that specializes in sheep's milk cheese has been nominated for a Garden State Culinary Arts Award.

Valley Shepherd Creamery was nominated in the Outstanding Food Artisan category, for those who have "demonstrated significant talent and skill in their chosen genre and has set new or consistent standards of achievement and excellence," according to the awards description.

All of the nominees are:

• Aunt Charlotte’s Candies, Merchantville; Oakford-Trost family
• The Bent Spoon, Princeton; Gabrielle Carbone and Matthew Errico
• Blair’s Sauces and Snacks, Highlands; Blair Lazar
• Bobolink Dairy and Bakehouse, Alexandria; Jonathan and Nina White
• Busy Bees NJ, Middle Township: Gary and Erin Schempp
• DiCosmo’s Water Ice, Elizabeth; DiCosmo family
• Lopes Sausage, Newark; Herminio Lopes
• Milk Sugar Love, Jersey City; Emma Taylor
• Stella's Empanadas, Kearny; Barulich family
• Valley Shepherd Creamery, Long Valley: Eran Wajswol

The winners will be selected by 100 independent judges, including journalist, food writers, cookbook authors and other experts. Finalists will be announced in April, and winners will be announced in May.

You can read more about the awards here.

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