List of American cheeses

A package of brick cheese

This is a list of cheeses typical of the United States. The list excludes specific brand names, unless a brand name is also a distinct variety of cheese. Many additional European-type cheeses are also made in the United States, such as Brie, Cheddar, Gouda, mozzarella and provolone. Also, many local dairies throughout the country produce artisan cheeses and other more localized flavors. (The term "American cheese" is also used to refer to the technology of processed cheese.) Many American cheese varieties are related to European cheeses, with slightly different recipes, and with European-sounding names, such as Swiss cheese, which is not normally found or produced in Switzerland. Almost half of the cheese produced in the United States comes from Wisconsin and California.^[1]

American cheeses

Bergenost cheese

• Bergenost
• Blue Marble Jack Cheese
• Brick cheese
• Capricious, goat's milk cheese made in Petaluma, California
• Caprizella, goat cheese, made in Washington
• Cheese curd
• Colby cheese
• Colby-Jack cheese
• Cougar Gold cheese
• Cream cheese
• Creole cream cheese
• Cup cheese
• Farmer cheese
  • Hoop cheese, drier version of farmer cheese
• Humboldt Fog, made in California
• Kunik cheese
• Liederkranz cheese
• Maytag Blue cheese, brand name which is also a distinct variety of cheese
• Monterey Jack
  • Pepper Jack cheese, variety of Monterey Jack
  • Dry Jack cheese, hard, aged Monterey Jack with a nutty flavor and texture similar to Italian Piave
• Muenster cheese Extremely mild, semi-soft with annatto exterior, nothing like name-controlled washed rind Alsacian Muenster
• Point Reyes Original Blue, made in California by the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company
• American generic parmesan, developed in the United States but inspired by Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese from Italy
• Pinconning cheese, aged variety of Colby
• Red Hawk cheese, triple-crème cow's milk cheese with a brine washed rind, made in California
• String cheese, particular American variety of mozzarella with a stringy texture
• Swiss cheese
• Teleme cheese

Processed cheeses

• American cheese, a processed cheese food, not technically a cheese
• Government cheese, variety of processed cheese food
• Nacho cheese
• Provel cheese
• Velveeta, brand name for a softer style of processed cheese than American cheese
• Provel cheese, a processed cheese blend native to St. Louis

See also

• List of cheeses
• List of cheesemakers
• List of American foods

References

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