Creamery’s new centre marked with kitchen challenge

Bosses at the creamery hosted a “Dales Kitchen Challenge” to commemorate the end of the work to its visitor centre, hosted by TV chef Rosemary Shrager.

Ms Shrager, who has appeared on numerous TV programmes including The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Ladette to Lady, challenged two teams to create a dish using The Wensleydale Creamery’s Jervaulx Blue cheese in a cook-off held in the creamery’s new-look centre.

The substantial expansion of the visitor centre, built from local stone, has created a new cheese shop, coffee shop, gift shop and restaurant.

The visitor centre is already one of the largest tourist attractions in the Yorkshire Dales with more than 200,000 people a year coming through its doors, a number set to increase by an estimated 50,000 people following the renovation.

Ms Shrager said: “I strongly believe in the quality, authenticity and provenance of Real Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese, which is the only Wensleydale actually made in Wensleydale and which is hand crafted to a time-honoured recipe.

“The creamery should be applauded for making such a large investment in its visitor centre which will further underpin the is substantial support for the rural economy by attracting even more visitors to the Dales.”