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Article: Cheesemaking highlights: farmstead cheese movement shows dynamic growth in California, while Wisconsin remains the leading cheese manufacturing state.(Cheese Update)
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- Dairy Foods
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- August 1, 2003
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California, host of this year's Marschall Cheese and Dairy Expo, not only is one of the country's largest cheese producers, it also is home to a rapidly growing farmstead cheese movement that is emerging as a leading force in the country's specialty cheese industry. While only a tiny percentage of the approximate 1.6 billion lbs of cows milk cheese the state produced in 2002 came from farmstead producers, this small amount of handcrafted cheese is increasingly sought after by chefs, specialty retailers and cheese connoisseurs in California and across the country.
In 1997, California had just three farmstead cows milk cheesemakers. Today, it is home to eight. A ...