Maine’s First Organic Dairy Farm Wins a James Beard America’s Classics Award

Maine’s Nezinscot Farm — a family-run farm, cafe, bakery, fromagerie, and charcuterie enterprise that’s also called the state’s first-ever natural dairy farm — snagged a James Beard America’s Classics Award this week, signifying the farm’s landmark standing as a neighborhood cornerstone in Maine.

The award honors native eating places throughout the nation which have “timeless attraction and are beloved regionally for high quality meals that displays the character of its neighborhood,” in response to the James Beard Basis. Situated in Turner, Maine, Nezinscott Farm is at present run by Gloria and Gregg Varney and has been within the Varney household for over 100 years. When Gloria and Gregg took over the operation in 1987, they added a neighborhood cafe and occasional store, after which stored constructing on that success with a bakery, cheese store, and charcuterie.

Per the muse:

“The Café has one thing lovely and thrilling on each shelf—instances of selfmade cheeses and meats, bagels, freshly baked pies, and ideal breads rolling out the kitchen, topped with farm eggs and selfmade sausage and cheeses. The vitality behind all of it feels directed at constructing neighborhood, with scrumptious selfmade all the pieces (even the teas, even the crackers) serving because the very important instrument of making and sustaining that gathering. The Varneys feed the neighborhood in some ways, considerably offering a heat area to assemble round meals on a farm in the course of Maine.”

5 different eating places snagged James Beard America’s Classics Awards, together with a 60-year-old Mexican restaurant in Austin.

That is only the start of the James Beard Basis’s award season this 12 months. The much-anticipated annual restaurant and chef semifinalist checklist was introduced in late January, and the finalists in these classes will likely be introduced on March 29. The season culminates with an awards present in Chicago on June 5, through which the Classics winners will likely be honored and the nationwide restaurant and chef winners will likely be introduced.