Farmstead Cheese Producers of America

Appears in
From the Earth to the Table

By John Ash

Published 1995

  • About
The word “American,” when applied to cheese, generally has negative connotations. It brings to mind the typically artificially colored, tasteless, processed, and uninteresting version we see in the supermarkets and fast-food industry. In reality, American farmstead cheeses are quite the opposite of those orange horrors. Their superb quality matches that of European rivals. Produced on farms throughout the country, our American cheeses are made with fresh high-protein milk from cows, goats, and sheep. They are handled with great care and reflect the regions in which they are produced.