[NormsRevenge]

Some wear it, some eat it..

Some even chase it down steep hills for sport..

No matter.. as long as Milk + Heat + Acid = Cheese

We'll find it resting on a wheat cracker eventually..

or shredded, sliced, diced, fondued, creamed, who knows.

It's Not quite a perfect food .. but close.

HaPPy NeW YeaR to the Old timers at FR, the nooBs, the soon to be and lurkers everywhere.

Don't forget to drop a coin or two in the old community kitty. ;-]

[NormsRevenge]

My first post of the year and I’m pinging you to it. ;-}

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s the Tillamook Cheese Factory that makes the best in the West! It’s the third most-visited tourist attraction in Oregon.
http://www.tillamook.com/

[onyx]

Happy, healthy, prosperous 2012 NormsRevenge!

[Larry Lucido]

[Graybeard58]

There’s an article right under this one that’s about a moose, now we need one about someone’s sister.

[Washi]

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The best cheese from the west coast is still third-rate cheese.

[weps4ret]

Well if you drive to Sand Point, Idaho you will find Lighthouse Bleu Cheese Makers. Although not the West Coast, it is in the American Redoubt, which is better IMHO. :-)

Gunner

[Retain Mike]

I would like to add rogue Creamery to their article.

http://www.roguecreamery.com/

[Lurker]

There are some excellent west coast cheeses but in my opinion the best cheese on Earth comes from Iowa.

L

[stormer]

For an "off the shelf" cheese, I'd have to agree with the Tillamook advocates. I was born not far from there, and I guess I've just got a natural affinity (just bought a block yesterday). Eat it with some Harry & David Riviera pears or Royal white peaches and it's just like being in Oregon. That said, I really love Cougar Gold, produced by the Experimental Creamery in the School of Food Science at Washington State University. If you're uninitiated and love cheese, get yourself some of this:

[tubebender]

Contest is over... http://www.cypressgrovechevre.com/cheeses.html

[exDemMom]

Having been raised in the north Bay Area, I have fond memories of the Sonoma Cheese Factory, http://www.sonomacheesefactory.com/.

I’m disappointed that it isn’t mentioned in the Sonoma Marin Cheese Trail that someone linked.

[Moltke]

some of the world's best cheese can be found right here on the West Coast.

I thought this article was going to be about Hollywood film studios.

[Daffynition]

Cowgirl Creamery cheeses...some of the BEST on the planet.

[artichokegrower]

Best I had was while traveling in Israel. Small place called Cheeses of Nazareth.

[Cold Heart]

Received for Christmas but have not yet read “The Guide To West Coast Cheese” by Sasha Davies. Over 300 handcrafted cheeses CA, OR, WA

Looks to be the definitive for what you are looking for.

[Cold Heart]

I just randomly opened the book and came to the authors top ten favorites:)

Brindisi, Burrata, Caldwell Crik Chevrette, California Crottin, Cougar Gold, Creamy Bleu, ElDorado Gold, Inverness, Jupiter Moon, Scio Heritage

You would still want to get the book.

[Joe Boucher]

Been all over the Tillamook-Cape Meares area.
WOW, there is a type of moss that grows off the trees because of all the cool humid air off the ocean. It will grow off branches to the ground. And the green grass.
Man, I’d be a cow there.

[rbbeachkid]

My favorite is Cowgirl Creamery in Sonoma County.