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Cheese festival canceled
By Andrew Amelinckx
HUDSON — A festival celebrating cheese, wine and creative cooking scheduled for this coming Sunday has been canceled due to a lack of ticket sales, said the event organizers.
The third annual Hudson Valley Cheese Festival organizers, Christopher Wiss and Paul D. Poux, pulled the plug Sunday night on the event that was supposed to be a venue for regional cheese, beer and wine makers and chefs. Both men own second homes in Columbia County and produce events in New York City.
According to the festival Web site, refunds will be “processed shortly.”
The event was to benefit Columbia County Bounty, a program that promotes and supports networking connections between local agricultural producers and culinary businesses.
Lori Selden, president of Columbia County Bounty and owner of Mexican Radio in Hudson, said she is saddened by the news.
“It’s a real shock,” she said. “It’s very disappointing to say the least.”
She wanted to make it clear that it was not a Bounty event. “We were just the beneficiaries,” she said.
Selden said there has been a lot of negative reaction to the cancellation from those planning on attending, as well as those involved.
According to Selden, farmers have already donated produce to chefs for the event, while the chefs have been working hard on the recipes they were planning on preparing that day.
“A lot of work has already been done,” she said.
The organizers had pre-sold 70 tickets, according to Selden, when Wiss and Poux pulled the plug. Last year they sold 200 tickets. The first year they limited it to 100 people. She said they should have trusted that people would come to the event.
Seldon said she believed they could have gotten at least 120 pre-sales and many more people showing up at the door. “People up here don’t plan weeks in advance like they do in the city,” she said.
Seldon said she offered to take the event over but Wiss and Poux refused.
Wiss had said ticket sales weren’t bad less than a week ago when he spoke with the Register-Star.
The only bright spot, said Selden, is that all the negative reaction has given impetus to the idea of Bounty doing something along the same lines. “Maybe this is something we should be doing,” she said.
Wiss did not return a phone call by press time Monday.
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx please call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267, or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com.
The third annual Hudson Valley Cheese Festival organizers, Christopher Wiss and Paul D. Poux, pulled the plug Sunday night on the event that was supposed to be a venue for regional cheese, beer and wine makers and chefs. Both men own second homes in Columbia County and produce events in New York City.
According to the festival Web site, refunds will be “processed shortly.”
The event was to benefit Columbia County Bounty, a program that promotes and supports networking connections between local agricultural producers and culinary businesses.
Lori Selden, president of Columbia County Bounty and owner of Mexican Radio in Hudson, said she is saddened by the news.
“It’s a real shock,” she said. “It’s very disappointing to say the least.”
She wanted to make it clear that it was not a Bounty event. “We were just the beneficiaries,” she said.
Selden said there has been a lot of negative reaction to the cancellation from those planning on attending, as well as those involved.
According to Selden, farmers have already donated produce to chefs for the event, while the chefs have been working hard on the recipes they were planning on preparing that day.
“A lot of work has already been done,” she said.
The organizers had pre-sold 70 tickets, according to Selden, when Wiss and Poux pulled the plug. Last year they sold 200 tickets. The first year they limited it to 100 people. She said they should have trusted that people would come to the event.
Seldon said she believed they could have gotten at least 120 pre-sales and many more people showing up at the door. “People up here don’t plan weeks in advance like they do in the city,” she said.
Seldon said she offered to take the event over but Wiss and Poux refused.
Wiss had said ticket sales weren’t bad less than a week ago when he spoke with the Register-Star.
The only bright spot, said Selden, is that all the negative reaction has given impetus to the idea of Bounty doing something along the same lines. “Maybe this is something we should be doing,” she said.
Wiss did not return a phone call by press time Monday.
To reach reporter Andrew Amelinckx please call 518-828-1616, ext. 2267, or e-mail aamelinckx@registerstar.com.
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