dispatches from yogurtland
Governor Cuomo Holds Vital Yogurt Summit
This is crucial, people.
Having solved all other challenges on his administration's docket, Governor Andrew Cuomo is holding a summit today concerning the state of the Greek-style yogurt economy in upstate New York. (If you didn't know, two of the leading yogurt brands, Fage and Chobani, have big production facilities in upstate New York.)
The Great New York Yogurt Summit is, if New York Times reporter Thomas Kaplan's tweets from the event are to be believed, a Christopher Guest mockumentary come to life.
The official Andrew Cuomo
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit has an official yogurt-related logo! yfrog.com/gysfbixsj
The scene of the
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit, which was too large to be held in the gov's office yfrog.com/h6504fkj
"This is a historic day,"
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012@nygovcuomo says, noting New York State has never before held a#yogurtsummit.
Assembly Speaker Silver: "In all my years in state gov't, this is, for sure, the first time I've been to a
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit."
Chobani rep cites "trickle-down economics" of yogurt, which he says can't be measured in only dollars, but also "smiles."
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012
"We're trying to raise the awareness of yogurt," Chobani exec says of boutique in SoHo. After remarks, everyone applauds.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012
The
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit is getting intense: a dairy farmer is now talking about debt per cow ratios.
"I hope that soon we'll be known as the Yogurt Empire," Farm Bureau rep says of upstate, likening it to Silicon Valley.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012
Panelist making case for SUNY schools as alternative to Cornell for ppl interested in "middle management for dairy farms."
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012
The
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit has run out of spoons.
A new supply of spoons has arrived.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit
Cuomo admin is forming a Yogurt-Related Federal Issues Subgroup to deal w/ immigration, the Farm Bill, etc.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012#yogurtsummit
"It's a new day,"
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) August 15, 2012@nygovcuomo says of government-yogurt industry relations.#yogurtsummit
Your state government at work, folks.
