Making Cheese Easy

One of America's favorite foods comes back home.

 

America's love affair with cheese began early and hasn't slowed down yet. On average, we consume more than one-half pound per person per week, enjoying it in everything from pizza to ham-and-Swiss sandwiches to fondues. In fact, this culinary obsession has been going on since America's earliest history.

 

Benjamin Franklin so loved Parmesan cheese that we went to considerable effort to obtain a recipe for his cook. Andrew jackson, in his last reception as president, invited the public to the White House to devour a massive 3-by-4 foot chunk of cheese that had been aging in the basement for more than a year. Ten thousand people stormed the White House for their share, leving such a smelly mess it took a month for the East Room carpet, drapes and furniture to air out.

 

Resourceful American pioneer women found making cheese an effective way to preserve their precious milk, developing favorite recipes they passed on to succeeding generations. By the 1880's, ..."

 

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