{"id":44759,"date":"2022-10-15T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=44759"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:00:28","slug":"from-mexico-to-americas-dairyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/from-mexico-to-americas-dairyland\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mexico to America&#8217;s Dairyland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PHOTOGRAPHED BY CODY LACROSSE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With Sancho Cruz Manchego and more, Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz puts his stamp on Wisconsin\u2019s cheese scene<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In elementary school, Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz\u2019s class toured an ice cream manufacturing plant. While his peers were distracted by the prospect of trying various flavors, Gutierrez Cruz was struck by the mechanics of it all. \u201cI was surprised it was like, 60 percent air in the ice cream,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI said, \u2018Wow, they are selling us bubbles.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades later, he can still recall standing in the facility in greater Mexico City, absorbing the complexity of a multi-step production process to put a finished food product on store shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In high school he considered pursuing a career as a doctor, but he couldn\u2019t shake his experience that day at the manufacturing plant. So, Gutierrez Cruz found a food engineering program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. \u201cI\u2019m not a guy who wants to be in the library or at a computer,\u201d he says, to explain why a medical career ultimately didn\u2019t make sense. \u201cI like to have freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44843\" width=\"377\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-1366x2048.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-25-copy-scaled.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gutierrez Cruz had never made ice cream and didn\u2019t have a specific product or food in mind when he enrolled in college. But soon after, his father bought a dairy farm about two hours north of Mexico City\u2014Gutierrez Cruz had an idea for what to do with the milk. With his dad, he launched Quesos Krava, a cheesemaking business originally based in the capital city that later relocated to the farm in the small and largely rural community of Polotitl\u00e1n. It marked his entry into the world of cheese and launched a career path that would later take him to the heart of Dairyland, USA, where he would become one of the industry\u2019s up-and-coming stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quesos Krava started small in 2010 and grew steadily. By the third year, they were producing panela, Manchego, cotija, Oaxaca, and provolone. But when an economic crisis hit Mexico in 2017, they began to lose customers and encountered supplier issues. Gutierrez Cruz secured a loan but it wasn\u2019t enough. He and his father sold the company, and he started thinking about his next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While on vacation in Wisconsin, Gutierrez Cruz met a creamery manager who offered him a job. Eager to settle down somewhere without the traffic and pace of Mexico City, he jumped at the chance and joined the team at Saxon Creamery in 2018. The company\u2014which sits along Lake Winnebago between Green Bay and Milwaukee\u2014focuses on European-style cheeses, including its rich gouda, a creamy asiago, and a buttery, semi-soft Germanic butterk\u00e4se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years earlier, Gutierrez Cruz visited Madison, Wisconsin, for the World Championship Cheese Contest. Drawn by the moderate climate with four distinct seasons, he welcomed the opportunity to live in an area revered for its dairy industry. But he didn\u2019t anticipate Wisconsin\u2019s stringent cheesemaking regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" data-id=\"44847\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58.png 1600w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-58-1536x1025.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>The market at Door Artisan Cheese offers an abundance of cheese and other regional culinary specialties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" data-id=\"44846\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49.png 1600w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-49-1536x1025.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>Unike the soft cheeses he made in Mexico, some of Gutierrez Cruz&#8217;s cheeses now are aged, and many are more experimental<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was surprised that here in Wisconsin, you have to basically apprentice for one year, and after that you need to go to courses,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s the only state that requires a license to make cheese. It tells you all the cheeses are good quality. Really, you feel proud to be part of this small group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Gutierrez Cruz accepted an offer to become the head cheesemaker at Door Artisan Cheese, where he was subsequently promoted to plant manager. In February 2022, Gutierrez Cruz joined a new ownership team at the company and now does a little of everything as one of the business\u2019 three managing partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Door Artisan Cheese is among the region\u2019s newest cheesemakers, and its sphere of influence is largely limited to the immediate area. Located in Door County\u2014at the tip of Wisconsin\u2019s \u201cthumb\u201d that juts into Lake Michigan\u2014Door Artisan Cheese occupies a simple clay-red commercial building in the miniscule village of Egg Harbor, which is known for its flourishing tourism industry; visitors are drawn to its natural beauty and wide scope of outdoor activities. Despite a minimal year-round population, the quaint town boasts a range of hip, independent businesses from breweries to art galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Door County\u2019s climate is cooler than Mexico\u2019s, cows here don\u2019t have to consume as much water to survive summer heat, Gutierrez Cruz says, which helps him create a high-quality product. By relying on hyperlocal dairies such as Red Barn Family Farms in Appleton, he can churn out more than a dozen remarkable cheeses, 11 of which have won national or international awards in the five short years that Door Artisan Cheese has been in operation (some of these predate his tenure). Most are nothing like the soft cheeses popular in Mexico that dominated his early career\u2014instead, Gutierrez Cruz is aging an English-style cheddar in the stone- walled cave below the company\u2019s retail space, rubbing coffee and lavender on an Alpine-style cheese, and mimicking caprese salad by adding sun-dried tomato and basil to a creamy fontina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215-1024x784.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215-1024x784.png 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-19-e1666268090215.png 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet he\u2019s also riffing on Quesos Krava\u2019s Manchego, which he used to make with a mix of cow\u2019s and goat\u2019s milk (unlike the Spanish classic, which is made from sheep\u2019s milk). His Sancho Cruz Mexican- style Manchego is made with readily available Wisconsin cow\u2019s milk for a creamier, slightly nutty concoction. It\u2019s his favorite, in part because it\u2019s unlike any other cheese on the market. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of my baby,\u201d Gutierrez Cruz says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s generation of cheese connoisseurs want more experimental options like these, he says, and that\u2019s part of how he\u2019ll influence Door Artisan Cheese\u2019s direction. Expect variations like a Manchego soaked in cherry cider (cherries are Door County\u2019s famed agricultural crop). The goal isn\u2019t to end up on Walmart shelves, but Gutierrez Cruz is teaming up with three local wineries, looking beyond Wisconsin\u2019s borders, and expanding the wholesaling operation to make their cheeses more readily available. The new partners are also revamping an adjoining restaurant, overhauling the website, and introducing more standby cheeses\u2014with the goal of earning at least one prestigious award for each. It\u2019s an ambitious plan, but it\u2019s motivating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes it\u2019s exhausting because I wear too many hats,\u201d says Gutierrez Cruz. \u201cIt\u2019s challenging but the process is really fun. Every day is different. I hope to look back in a year and see how much we improved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644-1024x815.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44845\" width=\"709\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644-1024x815.png 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Door-County-Artisan-Cheese-47-e1666268517644.png 1340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sancho Cruz Mexican Manchego is Gutierrez Cruz&#8217; signature creation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tasting-notes\">Tasting Notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chipotle Gouda<\/strong> | Cow\u2019s milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see why this Chipotle Gouda won first in its class at the 2021 World Dairy Expo. Smoky undertones dance with a chipotle kick, while its soft, easy-melting texture make it the perfect partner for a chicken panini. The cheese is cave-aged for at least three months beneath Door Artisan Cheese\u2019s production facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sancho Cruz<\/strong> | Cow\u2019s milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Mexican-style Manchego is Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz\u2019s pride and joy. Inspired by a recipe from his early days of cheesemaking outside Mexico City, this creamy yet sharp cheese is one of a kind. (Most Mexican Manchegos are made with lower-quality cow\u2019s milk, and the Spanish original is made exclusively with sheep\u2019s milk.) Balanced and enjoyable enough to snack on alone, Sancho Cruz is also an ideal addition to any charcuterie board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swedish Fontina<\/strong> | Cow\u2019s milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by the beloved caprese salad, this cave-aged Swedish Fontina cheese is buoyed by the addition of sun-dried tomato, basil, and a touch of salt to give it an edge. Shred and stir into fresh pasta for a savory and hearty meal that draws out the cheese\u2019s pesto-like char- acteristics. Swedish Fontina is one of the company\u2019s newest creations, and is an indication of where these Wisconsin cheesemakers are headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roseate Cheese<\/strong> | Cow\u2019s milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Named after a vibrant red dragonfly featured on its packaging, Door Artisan Cheese\u2019s Roseate is brined<br>in red wine, giving it a purple-hued rind and a subtle, enriched aftertaste. This creamy and understated Italian Asiago\u2013style cheese makes an appropriately mild companion for Cabernet or Malbec, but it could also stand in for a milder Swiss in a show- stopping patty melt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOGRAPHED BY CODY LACROSSE With Sancho Cruz Manchego and more, Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz puts his stamp on Wisconsin\u2019s cheese scene In elementary school, Ricardo Gutierrez Cruz\u2019s class toured an ice cream manufacturing plant. While his peers were distracted by the prospect of trying various flavors, Gutierrez Cruz was struck by the mechanics of it all. 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