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National Cheese Day
An American food day for cheese, marked by cheesemakers, shops and restaurants each year on 4 June.
Cheeses for National Cheese Day
National Cheese Day is one of the many unofficial food days of the American calendar, kept on 4 June. It is not a public holiday, but cheesemakers, dairy states and food writers use it to talk about American cheese, which has changed fast since the 1980s with the rise of farmstead and artisan makers in Wisconsin, Vermont, California and elsewhere. Shops set out tastings and restaurants put cheese courses on the menu. Wisconsin, which makes more cheese than any other state, marks the day with particular enthusiasm, from Colby and brick cheese to fresh curds.
The cheeses
Also part of it, and being written: Cheddar cheese (The most made cheese in the United States.).
Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Cheese" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Monterey Jack: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cheese curds: Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2, source
- Colby: Jeff the quiet, CC BY-SA 3.0, source