1920 – A 100 year look back at Cheesemaking in America

1920 – A 100 year look back at Cheesemaking in America

Hello Cheese Enthusiasts!

Besides my love for cheese, I also love family history…As a result, I have access to a lot of old newspaper databases and decided recently to take a look back 100 years to 1920. I remembered some of the highlights from this era from my history lessons…World War I had just ended and the nations were learning to work together again; women gained the right to vote, prohibition has stopped all of the legal sales of alcohol, the population was a third of what it is today, and Jazz music was all the rage…But what about the world of cheese?? I decided to take a look…The following article is a shared here in its entirety for your reading pleasure. It is from Page 11 of The Sacramento Bee Newspaper, 17 August 1920:

HOLES IN SWISS CHEESE INDICATIVE OF ITS QUALITY

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Protecting Europe’s Culinary Heritage

Protecting Europe’s Culinary Heritage

Hello fellow traveler!

If you have read my blog postings from the beginning, you will have heard me talk about PDO Cheeses, that is to say, cheeses that have been awarded the “Protected Designation of Origin” status. Since this acclaimed designation is so important, and yet so hard to achieve, I thought I should dedicate this week’s post to this subject, as I have researched this subject in great depth and in 2015 wrote a book on the subject.

To fully understand the PDO story,…..

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