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Jan 7, 2009 · It was an immediate commercial success, and a boon to American soldiers in the World Wars. By 1930 over 40% of cheese consumed in the U.S. was Kraft's -- and that was in spite of its relatively ...
- David Clark
A Brief History of "American Cheese," from Colonial Cheddar...
- David Clark
- Central and South America
- North America
- Early American Cheese's Connection to The Atlantic Slave Trade
- Elleanor Eldridge, Acclaimed Cheesemaker
Before Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere, there were no domesticated livestock—so there was no dairy. Indigenous peoples fed themselves through a combination of hunting, fishing, foraging, and agriculture. Even before the Puritans arrived in the New World, the Spanish had begun to colonize Central and South America in much the same way as...
In what’s now the United States, dairying took hold with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, with Puritans from strong cheesemaking regions of England bringing domesticated livestock and cheese recipes with them. The Cheshire and Cheddar-style cheesesthey brought would influence cheesemaking in the U.S. for centuries to come. Between 1630 and 164...
Starting in the mid-1600s, New England began exporting vast quantities of cheese and butter to provision large plantations in the West Indies, where sugarcane plantations had expanded rapidly and depended on huge numbers of enslaved people kidnapped from Africa. Along with the rum industry in New England—made possible by purchasing large quantities...
While the contributions of Africans and African-Americans to early cheesemaking in the United States have mostly been ignored, at least one of these women is known to us today. Rhode Island-born Elleanor Eldridge was the daughter of a Narragansett Indian woman and a formerly enslaved man who bought his freedom by fighting in the Revolutionary War. ...
The production of cheese predates recorded history, beginning well over 7,000 years ago. [1][2][3] Humans likely developed cheese and other dairy foods by accident, as a result of storing and transporting milk in bladders made of ruminants ' stomachs, as their inherent supply of rennet would encourage curdling.
Oct 28, 2023 · The Journey to America. Cheddar cheese made its way to America with the early European settlers. In fact, it is believed that cheddar cheese was one of the first cheeses made in the American colonies. The settlers brought with them the knowledge and techniques for making cheddar cheese, and they quickly began producing it on their farms.
Swiss immigrants opened a farmstead cheese factory in New Glarus (a small community in southwest Wisconsin) in 1846 with cows imported from Ohio. Cheese was manufactured at this point by women on the farm. In August of 1845 the first settlers arrived in Green County, Wisconsin from the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.
Mar 28, 2024 · James L. Kraft, an entrepreneur, filed a patent in 1916 for a process that involved emulsifying cheese, which allowed it to be stored and transported without spoiling. This innovation not only extended the shelf life of cheese but also made it more accessible, lending to the widespread popularity of American cheese.
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Jan 24, 2021 · Kraft Dinner’s first mac-and-cheese box made its debut in the U.S. 1964: The United States got its first taste of Swiss fondue at The New York World’s Fair. 1970s to 1980s: Powerful women pioneer a new era in American cheesemaking (find out more below). 2018: The world’s oldest cheese was discovered in the tomb of Ptahmes. It’s 3,200 ...
