The Art of Wisconsin Cheese
Wisconsin and the art of cheesemaking are synonymous throughout the world. With an illustrious heritage of more than 150 years, America’s Dairyland has produced delicious, award-winning Wisconsin cheese and farm-fresh dairy products of quality and craftsmanship. During this rich history, the art and science of cheesemaking has been captured in time-honored traditions that create varieties of unsurpassed excellence.
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History of Wisconsin Cheese
Nature set the stage for America's Dairyland during the last Ice Age, when mountainous glaciers cut through Wisconsin and left a countryside of rolling hills and lush pastureland. Millions of years later, when European immigrants migrated west, they found the nation's heartland, which reminded many of their homelands, suited dairy farming, and they soon produced an abundance of top-quality milk. To preserve excess milk, farmers made cheese. The move from producing cheese for family use to making cheese to sell is history.
Beginning in the early 19th century, when Western Europeans first settled this lush, central plains state, cheesemakers extolled the quality of Wisconsin's abundant milk supply for old-world cheesemaking techniques. The results began a tradition of excellence that has characterized cheese production in the state for over a century and a half. Thanks to pioneers from Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, and Scandinavia, and the industry's cutting-edge dairy science, Wisconsin is the leader for blending innovation and the art of cheesemaking. To protect this reputation, Wisconsin was the first state to require cheese grading and mandatory licensing of cheesemakers. [Top]
A Cheesy Wisconsin Family
Vacation
The Cranberry Country Lodge in Tomah, just a ˝ mile from the Humbird Cheese Mart, offers deluxe rooms and suites, warm Wisconsin hospitality, an indoor water park, convention and meeting facilities, a restaurant and lounge, wirelsss internet, and an array of family friendly amenities and services. Come enjoy a cozy and “cheesy” Wisconsin vacation! Please contact the Cranberry Country Lodge for information about local Cheese Factory Tours and exciting new Packages. [Top]
The Cranberry Country Lodge in Tomah, just a ˝ mile from the Humbird Cheese Mart, offers deluxe rooms and suites, warm Wisconsin hospitality, an indoor water park, convention and meeting facilities, a restaurant and lounge, wirelsss internet, and an array of family friendly amenities and services. Come enjoy a cozy and “cheesy” Wisconsin vacation! Please contact the Cranberry Country Lodge for information about local Cheese Factory Tours and exciting new Packages. [Top]
Wisconsin Cheese Makes History
- In 1841, Mrs. Anne Pickett established Wisconsin's first cottage cheese factory using milk from neighbors' cows.
- Seventeen years later, John J. Smith obta
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