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/
Yep! Makes excellent gifts as well.
“Best in the West”
Actually best in the world. Check the label on the medium cheddar. And that was off the shelf Tillamook Cheese competing with cheeses made just for the world competition in Wisconsin:)
Tillamook is great. Too bad Bandon Cheese shut down, they were good too.
The best in the West, maybe.
The various land-grant universities of New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as Vermont, have had research facilities working on the various permutations of cheese for well over a century now, and their contributions have made some of the local production facilities among the world-famous producers. California (?) makes cheese in vast quantity, but it is without soul or distinctive character, unlike the small cheese factories located in many little corners of the Dairy Belt.
Cheesemaking is an art, balanced with the science of selecting and preserving the cultures that create the cheese in the first place. Differences of the cooking process, temperature control at every point in the production of the curd, and the subsequent packing, storage, and optimal distribution of the product are all essential in the final perfection of the flavor and texture that make up a really excellent cheese, worthy of a connoisseur’s praise, much as fine wines are identified.
Not all of us are admirers of Kraft Foods.
http://www.oldcountrycheese.com/
I’ve procured some very good 12 year old cheddar at their brick & mortar shop...
I concur, Tillamook is the best!
I love Tillimook cheese...sharp. buy it by the baby brick and with fresh pears or golden delicious apples. Yum.