Wisconsin cheese

Wisconsin cheese

Wisconsin's cheese making tradition dates back to the 19th Century. European immigrants who settled in Wisconsin were drawn to its fertile fields.

Soon, dairy farms sprang up around Wisconsin, and farmers began producing cheese to preserve excess milk. In 1841, Anne Pickett established Wisconsin’s first commercial cheese factory, using milk from neighbors' cows.Fact|date=October 2008 A century later, Wisconsin was home to more than 1,500 cheese factories, which produced more than 500 million pounds of cheese per year.Fact|date=October 2008

Today, Wisconsin continues to be the largest cheese producer in the United States, making over 600 different cheese varieties, and 2.4 billion pounds each year – 25% of all cheese produced in the U.S. Fact|date=October 2008 In addition, Wisconsin has more licensed cheesemakers than any other U.S. state. It is also the only state to offer a Master Cheesemaker program, which is patterned on the rigorous standards of similar programs in Europe.

Wisconsin cheese is known for its orange color, originally designed as a marketing tool to differentiate it from New England cheese. Fact|date=October 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.wisdairy.com/ Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board]


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