Mozzarella Cheese from Wisconsin

After World War II, American soldiers returned home with a taste for a delicious new food that they discovered in Italy — pizza! — which featured a cheese they’d never tried before: mozzarella. Today, mozzarella is America’s most popular cheese, and Wisconsin makes more of it than anywhere else. Our cheesemakers produce nearly 1 billion pounds of this mild and melty, irresistible cheese each year. Creamy white, pliable and delicious, we’re proud to produce America’s number one cheese for America’s favorite food (pizza). Grazie, Italy!

Appearance

Creamy white, smooth and delicate.

Texture

Slightly springy and pulls apart in strands

Flavor

Mild, delicate milky goodness

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Agropur inc.

Burnett Dairy Cheese

Cascade Cheese Co.

Cedar Grove Cheese

Cedar Valley Cheese, Inc.

Cesar's Cheese

Clearview Dairy ATwo Cheese LLC

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, LLC

Foremost Farms USA

Grande Cheese Company

Harmony Cheese LLC

Henning Cheese, Inc.

Lynn Dairy, Inc.

MCT Dairies, Inc.

Mullins Cheese, Inc.

Nordic Creamery

Organic Valley

Renard's Cheese Store LLC

Saputo Cheese USA Inc.

Union Star Corp.

Weyauwega Star Dairy, Inc.

Willow Creek Cheese

Winona Foods, Inc.

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All Star, Ltd.

Barron County Cheese LLC

Biery Cheese Company Kickapoo Valley Plant

Cheese Plus LLC

Crystal Farms RDC

Deli Source, LLC

G&R Foods Inc.

Gibbsville Cheese Co, Inc.

Gile Cheese, LLC / Carr Cheese Factory

Integrity Cheese Packaging of Wisconsin, Inc.

Jim's Cheese, LLC

Keystone Farms Cheese

Laack Bros. Cheese Co., Inc.

Malcore Foods, Inc.

Masters Gallery Foods, Inc.

McCluskey Brothers Organic Farms

Mikana Foods, Inc.

North Country Cheese

North Country Packaging, Inc

PANOS Brands/Andrew & Everett

Red Apple Cheese

Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese, LLC/Ponderosa Farmstead

Roth Cheese

Sargento Foods Inc.

Sartori Company

Schreiber Foods, Inc.

Shullsburg Creamery

Steve's Wholesale Cheese

StoneRidge Wholesale Division

Taylor Cheese Corp.

The Wisconsin Craft Cheese Co./Steve's Cheese™

Vern's Cheese, Inc.

Weber's Farm Store

Weyauwega Cheese

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc.

Wisconsin Cheese Group

Wisconsin Dairy State Cheese Co.

Wisconsin's Finest, Inc.

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Performance Notes

Mozzarella slices and stores easily. If you want to grate it, make sure to chill it first because it tends to gum up your grater at room temperature.

Pairing Notes

Take your pick of light beers and medium-bodied, slightly acidic wines. We’ll usually pour chianti, zinfandel, merlot, chardonnay, pinot gris or rosé if we’re popping a cork, and pilsner or weiss beer if we have a frosty mug at hand.

Serve

There’s not a lot you can’t do with mozzarella. We like to layer it with ripe roma tomatoes and pesto between slices of focaccia and either griddle or grill it until the bread is nicely charred and the mozzarella is good and melty. We also love to grate it onto pizza, baked pasta dishes and eggplant parmesan. It’s great at room temperature too, but we like it best when it’s melty and ooey gooey.

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Mozzarella

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Performance Notes

Pairing Notes

Serve

Philly Cheesesteak Sheet-Pan Nachos

Mozzarella and Prosciutto Pinwheels

Soft Pretzel Pizza Bites

String Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza

Four-Cheese Baked Ziti

Fresh Mozzarella Ghost Pizza Dip

Scary Halloween Pizza

Star-Spangled Salsa and Chips

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