This is a story of farmers, milk cows, dairy barns, and green pastures. It is the story of cheese makers who work their magic and turn milk into cheese. Jerry Apps narrates the history of the cheese-making industry in Wisconsin from its inception in the 1940s to the present. In his compelling yet conversational style, Apps documents how the daily lives of the early cheese makers and how Wisconsin became the nation's number one cheese producer. The experiences come from the cheese makers, milk haulers, cheese graders and buyers, with stories of snow-blocked roads and frozen milk, of fish in the milk cans, wine in the cheese cellars, and the early resistance toward "western" cheese. Apps explains the many different kinds of Wisconsin-made cheeses (including those that originated or are exclusively made in the state), and discusses the current cheese producers, their factories and technology. Apps also includes his insights into the wedge-shaped foam headgear and other cheese phenomena.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0942495802
ISBN-13
9780942495805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
282962
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cheese : the Making of a Wisconsin Tradition
Author
Jerry Apps
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Specific Ingredients / Dairy, Regional & Ethnic / American / Middle Western States
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Cooking, History
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
7in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Sf274.U6a66 1998
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-012317
Dewey Decimal
641.3/73/09775
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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