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Article: CHEESE COMFORT AMERICAN CHEDDARS ARE SAVORY, RICH AND POPULAR, RIVALING THEIR CENTURIES-OLD ENGLISH FOREBEARS.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 19, 2001
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Byline: REAGAN WALKERCox News Service
From the tops of hamburgers to the tops of apple pie, cheddar is the most popular cheese in the world, according to Dairy Management Inc. And it accounts for at least 10 of the 30 pounds of cheese per person consumed annually in the United States.
A good portion of the rest is "American processed cheese" products, which evolved from the cheddar-making process and in some cases are labeled as cheddar cheese.
But most of those blocks of orange stuff encased in plastic at the grocery store are a far cry from the cheese born in Cheddar, England, centuries ago and the finest cheddars made today.
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