Destination Cheese: Curd-Centric Road Trips in Five States
Because we wanted to explore some lesser-known cheese destinations, culture asked five writers to take us on a tour of their home states.
Cheesy Road Trip: Illinois
The cheeses made here are uniquely Midwestern. That unbroken horizon, the rows and rows of soy and wheat, are a microclimate all their own.
Cheesy Road Trip: Texas
Cheese might not be the first thing to come to mind when you think about Texas, but it actually has a steadily growing artisan and farmstead cheese scene.
Cheesy Road Trip: Western Massachusetts
The rural counties of western Massachusetts have a cheesemaking reputation of their own dating back to the Jeffersonian era.
Cheesy Road Trip: North Carolina
The hilly, tree-lined roads through North Carolina’ smountains-to-sea landscape inspire wanderlust but, more importantly, cheese-lust.
Cheesy Road Trip: Oregon
Whether your jam is urban centers bustling with farmers markets or quaint wine country towns, Oregon has a lot to offer the cheese-obsessed traveler.
Greener Pastures for Mrs. Appleby’s Cheshire
Herstory is repeating itself at Hawkstone Abbey Farm as an Appleby woman once again looks to the past to find a way forward for farmstead Cheshire cheese.
Destination Dairies
These off the beaten path creameries—from Connecticut, to Tennessee, to California and beyond—are totally worth the trip.
In Search of Cheese in Mexico’s Wine Country
With headlines like “The New Napa,” the Valle de Guadalupe in Baja California Norte, Mexico has built up a steady pilgrimage for the past decade.
