{"id":40140,"date":"2021-06-14T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=40140"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:28:28","slug":"destination-cheese-curd-centric-road-trips-in-five-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/destination-cheese-curd-centric-road-trips-in-five-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Destination Cheese: Curd-Centric Road Trips in Five States"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>o paraphrase Martha and the Vandellas (or Bruce Springsteen): Summer’s here and the time is right … to hit the road in search of curd. Because we wanted to explore some lesser-known cheese destinations, culture<\/strong> asked five writers to take us on a tour of their home states.<\/p>\n

Cheesemakers’ hours of operation may vary; be sure to call before you go.<\/h5>\n
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Stop One: Oregon<\/a><\/h1>\n

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By Christine Hyatt<\/em><\/p>\n

From Butterbloom to world-champion blues, Oregon serves up opportunities for tasteful cheese adventures. Whether your jam is quirky-hip urban centers bustling with farmers markets or quaint wine country towns that retain their historic charm, Oregon has a lot to offer the cheese-obsessed traveler.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Two: Texas<\/a><\/h1>\n

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By Laurel Miller<\/em><\/p>\n

Cheese might not be the first thing to come to mind when you think about Texas, but the Lone Star State actually has a small, steadily growing artisan and farmstead cheese scene. While beef may be king from a historical and economic perspective, Texas boasts the highest concentration of meat goats in the U.S., particularly in the Hill Country. Giant swaths of the state aren\u2019t conducive to raising dairy cattle on a large scale due to poor soil and climate (hot, and hotter), which is why goats are a more practical and financially feasible option for modern cheesemakers. Central Texas\u2019s nineteenth-century Czech and German settlers also had a lasting influence on the agriculture and food of the region, from farming and curing meat to cheesemaking.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Three: Illinois<\/a><\/h1>\n

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By Linni Kral<\/em><\/p>\n

Upon graduating college in California, I took a friend home to my native Chicago on a road trip that wove through dramatic desert landscapes and weepy southern tree canopies. When we crossed into my home state of Illinois, my co-pilot was dumbfounded\u2014out either window, cornfields and power lines stretched to the ends of the earth in a flat, featureless expanse unlike anything he\u2019d ever seen. I think he half expected a tornado to barrel toward us across the plains.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Four: North Carolina<\/a><\/h1>\n

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By Hannah Lee Leidy<\/em><\/p>\n

The hilly, tree-lined roads through North Carolina\u2019s mountains-to-sea landscape inspire wanderlust but, more importantly, cheese-lust. Over the past five years, the state has quietly forged a reputation for quality cheese-making by boutique producers.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Five: Western Massachusetts<\/a><\/h1>\n

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By Christine Burns Rudalevige<\/em><\/p>\n

Wedged between the more well-known cheesemaking regions of upstate New York and southern Vermont, the rural counties of western Massachusetts\u2014Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, and Hampshire\u2014have a cheesemaking reputation of their own dating back to the Jeffersonian era. In the spring of 1801, John Leland, a Baptist preacher in this northwesterly corner of the Bay State, solicited enough milk from the wives of the farmers in his flock to make a cheese the size of a wagon wheel. This mammoth cheese from Cheshire, the area now divided into the towns of Adams,Cheshire, Lanesboro, New Ashford, and Windsor, was aged and presented to Virginia Republican Thomas Jefferson because the farmers, who had faced persecution and state-mandated support for Congregational pastors under previous administrations, favored the new president\u2019s zeal for separation of church and state.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Want more cheese-focused travel? Check out Destination Cheese: European Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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