{"id":40177,"date":"2021-06-14T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=40177"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:43:29","slug":"cheesy-road-trip-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/cheesy-road-trip-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy Road Trip: Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

U<\/span>pon 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

Illinois is situated squarely in the shadow of Wisconsin, America\u2019s Dairyland, which boasts over 9,000 dairy farms relative to our 630\u2014but quantity isn\u2019t everything. That much is obvious in the farmstead tours offered amid prairie cropland, the Mexican and Italian cheesemakers sustaining traditions in Chicago, and a generation of mongers keeping the state hip to industry trends\u2014and even setting them. From resident cheese preacher Erika Kubick of @cheesesexdeath<\/a> to all-day cafe\/cheese counter All Together Now<\/a>, curd entrepreneurs are making the place a hub of innovation. They\u2019re also demonstrating how a city can #pivot its way into cheese fame with resilient mongers like Alisha Norris Jones (@_immortalmilk<\/a>) and Randall Felts, who opened his cheese shop Beautiful Rind<\/a> in the midst of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The cheeses made here are also uniquely Midwestern. That unbroken horizon, the rows and rows of soy and wheat, are a microclimate all their own, where water is filtered through limestone bedrock and cows can be grass-grazed nearly year-round. I grew up taking this prairie landscape for granted\u2014I thought every town looked like this. Viewing it through the eyes of a newcomer, I got for the first time how weird it is. It\u2019s a world all its own, and one you might have to see to believe.<\/p>\n

Cheesemakers To Visit<\/h1>\n

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Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, Champaign<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Prairie Fruits is Illinois\u2019s first farmstead cheesemaking operation, and easily the most well-known. \u201cThe most famous Illinois cheesemakers are probably Leslie Cooperband and Wes Jarrell,\u201d says Chicago cheese professional and Cheese Culture Coalition<\/a> board member Agela Abdullah of the folks behind Prairie Fruits. \u201cThey do farm dinners, have a babies-and-brunch program during kidding season, and make decadent goat milk gelato.\u201d The popular Champaign destination welcomes visitors to tour the grounds, visit with goats, pick in-season fruits, and witness the cheesemaking process. Their Fleur de la Prairie and Little Bloom on the Prairie<\/a> cheeses lean into the region\u2019s terroir, as do gelatos<\/a> that feature Thai basil, lemon verbena, and other mix-ins grown on the property.<\/p>\n

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Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, Fithian<\/a><\/h3>\n

Just east of Prairie Fruits, the Ludwig Farmstead Creamery crafts fresh and often raw milk cheeses on the 150-acre grounds of Feathercreek Farm, a fifth-generation family farm settled in 1866. Visitors can tour the grounds to see how their 80 Holstein cattle live, visit with the calves in the milking parlor, see how the cheese is made and taste samples in the creamery, and take home wedges like triple cream Vermilion River Blue and alpine-style Feather Ridge from the farm store.<\/p>\n

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Marcoot Jersey Creamery, Greenville<\/a><\/h3>\n

Seven generations of Marcoots have raised Jersey cows on this farm just over the border from St. Louis. They started making cheese in 2010 and now offer over a dozen types, including tommes, cheddars, goudas, and alpines aged in their underground caves. Visitors can tour these caves and visit with the beautiful brown Jerseys in the calf barn and milking parlor, see cheeses being made behind the creamery\u2019s large windows, or shop the red-and-white country store for some hand-dipped ice cream, fruit-and-whey Extreme Ice, grass-fed beef, and cheesy dog treats.<\/p>\n

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Stamper Cheese Company, Chicago<\/a><\/h3>\n

When I was growing up in Chicago in the \u201890s, there were Wisconsin cheesemakers at the city farmer\u2019s markets, and then there was Stamper Cheese. Owner Brett Stamper\u2019s operation is a hybridized mongering-making-aging model\u2014he sells other people\u2019s cheese, but also crafts modified specialties like triple creme brie layered with apricots and toasted almonds, a soft pistachio log, applewood-smoked cheese sticks, and extra-aged cheddar. He now offers cheese drops and home deliveries, too, proving that not even a pandemic can get in the way of Chicago\u2019s Stamper supply.<\/p>\n

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Caputo Cheese Market, Melrose Park<\/a><\/h3>\n

The original Caputo\u2019s is a bit of a drive outside Chicago proper, but it\u2019s a trip most deem worth it for the experience provided by this well-stocked Italian market. (They\u2019ve added six more locations throughout the state, though, just in case.) Cheeses from the Bel Paese are sold beside an enormous selection of domestic and international wheels, but the main attractions are the cheeses made on site\u2014Caputo\u2019s crafts their own ricotta, burrata, and mozzarella<\/a>, the latter sold in many forms including fresh hand tied bocconcini knots. They also have an in-house line of Italian condiments, oils, pastas, and tomato products.<\/p>\n

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Other Noteworthy Stops<\/h1>\n

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All Together Now!, Chicago<\/a><\/h3>\n

All Together Now! exists for anyone who has ever found themselves utterly overwhelmed at a cheese counter, wishing they could sit down right there and try everything in sight. This all-day eatery, wine shop, and cheese counter in Chicago\u2019s Ukrainian Village will make you a cheese plate with anything in their case; accent it with house-made granola, creamy raw honey, or a malted chocolate sandwich cookie; and let you pick a bottle out of their wine fridge. And they don\u2019t stop at this instant-picnic perfection\u2014ATN is open for brunch, lunch, and dinner, and you can supplement your cheese with things like radicchio blood orange salad, crispy fingerlings topped with lemon powder and malt vinegar mayo, and brothy gigante beans in berbere cream.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Beautiful Rind, Chicago<\/a><\/h3>\n

Randall Felts opened this Logan Square cheese and wine shop at the start of the pandemic, and it is thriving despite all odds. This is no doubt due to Felts\u2019s dedication to education and access\u2014he hadn\u2019t even been open a year before he began offering virtual education classes, a cheese club, private events, and online ordering for pick-up and delivery. In a city that has seen names like Pastoral Artisan and Marion Street Cheese Market come and go, Felts wants to establish a lasting hub for cheese lovers and cheese professionals alike. \u201cMy goal with the shop is to foster a great, diverse monger community that reflects Chicago\u2019s standing as an amazing diverse food city,\u201d says Felts.<\/p>\n

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Cremeria La Orde\u00f1a, Chicago<\/a><\/h3>\n

 The city is lucky to have not one, not two, but three locations of this Guerrerense grocery, started by Nicolas Aguado and Luciano Dominquez. Though they\u2019ve gained a reputation for their selection of over a dozen moles, these shops are cremerias at heart. You can find cheese varieties hailing from Durango to Michoacan to Oaxaca, including queso de cabra, requeson, jocoque, several types of crema, three cajetas, two xinchos, and nata (the cream that forms on the top of boiling milk). Come for the dairy, leave with bags full of huitlacoche, canary seeds, purple tomatillos, lime-flavored grasshoppers, dried guamuchiles, and as many varieties of mole as you can carry.<\/p>\n

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The Blind Pig Brewery, Champaign<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Blind Pig is a working brewery with several locations to whet your whistle. Opened by a British ex-pat who moved to the state\u2019s twin cities in the 1990s to join University of Illinois\u2019s School of Chemical Sciences, BP has been experimenting with rotating drafts ever since. Lately, that\u2019s included a grilled pineapple sour called Sponge-Pig Sour-Pants and a DIPA featuring strawberry-forward Strata hops. Blind Pig has made it onto Beer Advocate\u2019s list of best beer bars in the country and is definitely worth a stop after visiting the nearby creameries at Prairie Fruits and Ludwig.<\/p>\n

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Where To Stay<\/h1>\n

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Vrooman Mansion Bed & Breakfast, Bloomington<\/a><\/h3>\n

This restored Italianate mansion is right in the middle of the state, perfect for a historic stopover on your way to or from Chicago. Built in 1869, it\u2019s now a B&B where you\u2019ll eat breakfast at a hand-carved table that once sat U.S.presidents and Eleanor Roosevelt. Rotating menus emphasize seasonality\u2014think spring asparagus frittatas, summer grilled peach mousse, autumnal pecan pumpkin waffles, and wintry br\u00fbl\u00e9ed orange French toast. Common areas include a restored library, parlor, and foyer where you can cozy up in inglenooks beside the fireplace.<\/p>\n

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The Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago<\/a><\/h3>\n

If you\u2019re looking to see the Windy City in style, this is your spot. The spoils begin outside in the jaw-dropping Gothic exterior of this former athletic club, directly across from the Bean at Millennium Park. The lobby of this late 18th-century hotel will transport you to another time, mosaic tile and terrazzo flooring carrying you from one dining experience to the next (Fairgrounds coffee<\/a> in the lobby, Cindy\u2019s<\/a> rooftop atrium, Milk Room bar<\/a>, and Cherry Circle Room<\/a> restaurant, to name a few). Or you can skip all that, order Shake Shack to your room, and eat it in the cloth boxing robe that comes with your digs while gazing out over Lake Michigan. When that gets boring, there are indoor bocce courts.<\/p>\n

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Want to keep traveling? See what other stops are on our cheesy road trip <\/i><\/b>here<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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