Was this year's Seattle Cheese Festival a little smaller than usual? Or has our appetite for free cheese cubes grown exponentially over the last four years? Whatever the case, the 2008 Cheese Fest was in full effect. We went Sunday, assuming that the temps on Saturday made for a whole lot of gooey, melty cheese, not that there's anything wrong with that. Sure, there were plenty of people at the Market, but we know how to deal with crowds (after all, we are from a City): You don't stand in a proper line, like a good, patient, uptight Seattleite. No, you dart through the crowd, you duck in and out of line to get your cheese samples, you are stealthy like ninja. That was our experience at least. For the fourth year in a row, we happily ate ourselves sick on cheese--as God intended. We asked the rest of Seattlest about their time at this year's Cheese Festival. more ›

HUGE AMOUNTS OF CHEESE: The Cheese Festival is upon us! This is one of our top three favorite events of the year (#2: our birthday, #3: Christmas). Several reasons: a city block full of cheese, friendly vendors, wholesale prices on bottles in the wine garden (don't buy the red wine that says "bacon" three times in its description, we made that mistake last year), and (it bears repeating) a city block full of cheese. more ›

--In Wallingford we all fight to be the last on the bus "You go first" "No, you go first" style. Don't know about the rest of you. more ›

Mother Noella Marcellino, who visited Seattle this weekend for the Cheese Festival, knows the secret of life; she's seen it through a microscope. The Cheese Nun, as she's known, started milking cows 30 years ago at a cloistered Benedictine order in Connecticut. A Fulbright Fellowship took her to France to see, touch, smell and taste cheesemaking techniques. Today, having earned a PhD in microbiology, she's considered one of the foremost authorities on the precise details of lactic fermentation. more ›

As previously mentioned, it's Cheese Weekend! The Seattle Cheese Festival is now in its third year at Pike Place Market, and this weekend will be our third time in attendance. From the amount of growth we saw between years one and two (in both vendors and audience), we're expecting that this year's event will be bigger than ever. Sure, there's educational cheese lectures and cooking demonstrations and a cheese-themed scavenger hunt for the kids, but what we're there for is the grand cheese showcase, along the market's main thoroughfare. That's where the vendors from all over the country, as well as the world, will be handing out samples of their creamy/stinky/sharp/gooey/yummy wares. more ›

Down on phony farms, up for the real thing. more ›

On Saturday and Sunday, the Pike Place Market was host to the 2nd Annual Seattle Cheese Festival. The weather cooperated, so it ended up being two beautiful days of mass cheese consumption. Seattlest personally ate more cheese in the span of an hour than most people should ingest in a lifetime. Oh but it was worth it... more ›

It's Mother's Day weekend. Some people say we should remember our mothers all year-round, not just on a single day. But we do! With yo momma jokes! Seattlest contributors share their favorites, along with their plans for enforced family togetherness. more ›

Seattlest loves cheese. And not just one cheese in particular---cow, goat, sheep---we love it all. We'd eat cheese from camel or llama or yak's milk if we could get our hands on some. Moreover, we like our cheeses nice and complex: the more aged, the creamier, the stinkier, the sharper, the better. more ›