Episode 5 - Candied Cheddar at Roelli Cheese

Episode 5 - Candied Cheddar at Roelli Cheese

Cheddar cheese - Wisconsin’s claim to fame. Nearly half of all cheese plants in America’s Dairyland produce cheddar, whether it’s in huge, 640-pound commodity blocks destined to be cut up and sold in big box grocery stores, or in smaller - but still heavy - 40-pound blocks meant to be aged and sold in specialty shops. Some cheesemakers even craft cheddar in 22-pound waxed daisy wheels, or in smaller, 18-pound wheels wrapped in linen and then covered in lard and aged in a cellar for a year or more. So much cheddar, so many choices. Wisconsin crafts more than 600 million pounds of cheddar every year in every shape and size. And perhaps nobody has a deeper connection to cheddar than the Roelli family. Their historic cheese plant sits at the corner of Highways 11 and 23, halfway between Darlington and Shullsburg in the southwest corner of the state. In 2006, the 4th generation of the Roellis – that would be Chris – brought the family cheese plant back to life, focusing not on commodity cheddar but on small batch artisan cheese. His latest creation is what he calls a candied cheddar – a 20-pound wheel of deep red cheddar chock full of crystals and a sweet, lovely finish. I stopped at Roelli Cheese last week to get a glimpse at this new creation and talk cheddar with Master Cheesemaker Chris Roelli.

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Episode 14: Cheese Caves in Sotres de Cabrales, Spain

Episode 14: Cheese Caves in Sotres de Cabrales, Spain

High up in the Picos de Europa mountains in the autonomous community of Asturias, lies the tiny parish of Sotres de Cabrales, Spain. The nearest school or grocery store is 45 minutes away, and the num...

4 Loka 201740min

Episode 13: Starting from Scratch: Door Artisan Cheese Company

Episode 13: Starting from Scratch: Door Artisan Cheese Company

Imagine building a brand new artisan cheese factory. You’ve made your very first batch of cheese, and just days later, opened a shiny new retail store. It’s the beginning of a busy tourist season in D...

19 Syys 201731min

Episode 12 - 50 Years Over the Vat: Master Cheesemaker Sid Cook

Episode 12 - 50 Years Over the Vat: Master Cheesemaker Sid Cook

n just a couple of months, Sid Cook, owner of Carr Valley Cheese in Wisconsin, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of earning his Wisconsin cheesemaker’s license. You might think that because he’s spe...

13 Syys 201724min

Episode 11 - Setting Up Cheese in the Dark: Hook's Cheese

Episode 11 - Setting Up Cheese in the Dark: Hook's Cheese

A few weeks ago, I called cheesemaker Tony Hook in Mineral Point with the idea of doing a story on what it was like to sell cheese at the largest producer-only farmer’s market in the nation. Every Sat...

6 Syys 201728min

Episode 10 - Seasonal Milk, Seasonal Cheese at Uplands

Episode 10 - Seasonal Milk, Seasonal Cheese at Uplands

Located on scenic Highway 23 between Dodgeville and Spring Green, Wisconsin, Uplands Cheese is one of the best known farmstead cheese plants in the nation. Its flagship cheese, Pleasant Ridge Reserve,...

30 Elo 201733min

Episode 9 - Wisconsin Women Cheesemakers

Episode 9 - Wisconsin Women Cheesemakers

Of 1,200 licensed cheesemakers in Wisconsin, less than 60 are women. Three of them: Katie Fuhrmann at LaClare Farms, Anna Landmark of Landmark Creamery and Diana Murphy at Dreamfarm (pictured above fr...

23 Elo 201729min

Episode 8 - Sold! Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Auction

Episode 8 - Sold! Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Auction

Summer in Wisconsin means only one thing to many folks: fair season. There are county fairs, there are local fairs and then there’s the grand daddy of them all: the Wisconsin State Fair, an 11-day ext...

16 Elo 201721min

Episode 7 - The Future of North Hendren Cooperative Dairy

Episode 7 - The Future of North Hendren Cooperative Dairy

This week, I visited small town Wisconsin and talked with two dairy farm families, both milking small herds of just 60 cows, and who for decades, have shipped their milk to the local cheese factory: N...

9 Elo 201726min

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