Estate Cooking Demo and Dinner at Black Star Farms with Afrim Pristine & Leah Moerdyk

Black Star Farms is the perfect setting for an intimate cooking demo, followed by dinner, hosted by a passionate leader in agriculture and food.

Afrim Pristine is Canada’s foremost cheese expert and the world’s youngest Maître Fromager — or Cheese Master — a title rooted in a family legacy spanning four generations at Toronto’s iconic Cheese Boutique. A dynamic culinary storyteller and Food Network host of Cheese: A Love Story, Pristine has dedicated over 25 years to mastering the art and science of cheese — studying under cheese masters across France, Spain, England, and beyond, and building relationships with the world’s finest producers along the way.

For this special evening, Afrim brings his signature artistry to the Black Star Farms estate, collaborating with Black Star Farms chef Leah Moerdyk, whose intimate knowledge of the land and its flavors grounds every course in the extraordinary bounty of northern Michigan’s farms, orchards, and waters. Together, they have crafted a multi-course dinner that pairs the bold, complex character of artisan cheeses with locally grown ingredients and Black Star Farms’ internationally award-winning estate wines, offering a unique reflection of the remarkable Leelanau Peninsula terroir.

This is a Traverse City Food and Wine event.

Limited to 12 people, tickets available soon..