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Article: Baby Swiss cheese is an Ohio creation.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 30, 2002
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One of the United States' finest native cheeses is made by men in overalls with hairnets looped under their chins to cradle their bushy beards. It isn't easy being Amish in a cheese house.
The beard-nets are standard in Ohio's Amish country, where most of the country's baby Swiss cheese is made. The mild buttery cheese was invented in Ohio, and some would argue that the best baby Swiss is still made amid the gently rolling hills of Tuscarawas and Holmes counties.
Like California Monterey Jack and Wisconsin Colby, Ohio baby Swiss is uniquely American. It is not Swiss cheese, although it shares the name. Baby Swiss is a buttery mild, medium-soft cheese ...