Please note that the meal was complimentary. However, the opinions expressed in my blog are 100% my own!

Last week, I was invited at Fedora, a restaurant in the West Village to celebrate the 100 years of Kaukauna cheese, a company making spreadable cheese. Kaukauna is a city in Wisconsin, approximately 100 miles North of Milwaukee, where the founder, Hubert Fassbender, created a distributing company, which soon became known as South Kaukauna Dairy and eventually Kaukauna Cheese. According to their press release:

“Fassbender, who also distributed beer, created the iconic spreadable cheese after numerous tavern owners requested something to serve at their bars. Sold in a ceramic crock, Kaukauna Spreadable Cheese was served in fine hotels and supper clubs across Wisconsin and acquired the nickname "Club Cheese." The Kaukauna Klub brand was introduced and copyrighted in 1933.”

It is apparently the number 1 spreadable cheese brand in America, with more than 4,500 tons of Kaukauna Spreadable Cheese sold annually in 3,400+ American retail outlets.

Today, Kaukauna is launching a new product line with no artificial flavors: these cheese balls are proposed in the two most popular flavors, Sharp Cheddar and Port Wine.

Then we got to try some food from Fedora, but just a little as we had to go. Here is what we had:

As a cocktail, I tried their Black Squirrel Old Fashioned that is a recipe inspired by The Voyageur Hotel’s bar in Reedsburg, WI. It was concocted with bourbon, cherry heering, maple and pecan bitters: