When you grow up in a family that owns a business, there are typically two outcomes when it comes to your future: you either run as far as you can in the other direction and never look back, or you fall in step with the generations that came before you and eventually take the reins. Of course, both paths have merit, especially when there’s delicious food involved.
That’s a lot of generations of cheesemaking! What does Wisconsin’s cheesemaking community mean to you? Brick cheese was invented in 1877 by a Swiss immigrant named John Jossi and the reason they call it brick cheese is because they actually use a brick to press the curds into a block.I bet a lot of people think it’s named for the shape of the cheese rather than the cheesemaking process.