When the American Cheese Society (yes, it exists and no, I don’t know if they are hiring) announced the winners of its annual cheese competition, Oregon cheesemakers brought home five first-place medals.
And while all of those wins are feathers in our state’s noble cap, one win feels especially important: Best string cheese, two years in a row.
And no, the award didn’t go to Tillamook. Guys, Tillamook doesn’t even make string cheese.
This string cheese comes from Salem and looks, truly, like it deserves the honor: Don Froylan Creamery’s Liliana’s String Cheese.
“This cheese was created with love for and named after our daughter Liliana,” said Don Froylan’s owner and cheesemaker, Francisco Ochoa, in a statement sent out by the Oregon Cheese Guild (also real).
Don Froylan Creamery’s Liliana’s String Cheese.Courtesy of the Oregon Cheese Guild
“You can come and see it stretched by hand every day at our tasting room in Salem,” Ochoa …