It seems that Ziege Zacke Blue, a goat cheese with a blue "wave" is all the rave in Wisconsin. Roelli Cheese in Shullsburg has just begun production of the first batches, which will appear in select Wisconsin stores.

Christened Ziege Zacke Blue (say zeegy zacky) by a group of Chicago chefs that enjoyed it so much, one night they started singing old German folk tunes while eating it, (Ziege means "goat" in German, Zacke means "wave" -- thus a "Goat Cheese with a Wave of Blue") the cheese is patterned after a Dry Jack, is part cow's milk, part goat's milk, and is cave-aged.

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