{"id":2882,"date":"2007-05-12T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2007-05-12T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T10:25:25","slug":"a_better_chedda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"A Better Cheddar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"napadairyjz.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/napadairyjz.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" border=\"1\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/05\/13\/BUG7HPP2981.DTL\">George Raine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>On the outskirts of Modesto, John Fiscalini, with an assist from cheesemaker Mariano Gonzalez, makes the world&#8217;s best extra-mature traditional cheddar.<br \/>\nYou can look it up. In the World Cheese Awards held in London in March, an 18-month-old cheddar from Fiscalini Cheese Co. was awarded the trophy in the category, the first time in the contest&#8217;s 20 years that a British entry didn&#8217;t win.<br \/>\nDown the road from Fiscalini Farms, in Hilmar (Merced County), Hilmar Cheese Co. operates the world&#8217;s largest cheese and whey-products manufacturing facility. The company makes 1.4 million pounds of cheese every day and will make 500 million pounds this year. It produces 1 out of every 8 pounds of cheddar and Monterey Jack made in the nation.<br \/>\nCalifornia cheese production is on a roll. The state is about to pass Wisconsin &#8212; America&#8217;s Dairyland &#8212; as the nation&#8217;s leading cheesemaker. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloverstornetta.com\/\">Stornetta&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Raine: On the outskirts of Modesto, John Fiscalini, with an assist from cheesemaker Mariano Gonzalez, makes the world&#8217;s best extra-mature traditional cheddar. You can look it up. In the World Cheese Awards held in London in March, an 18-month-old cheddar from Fiscalini Cheese Co. was awarded the trophy in the category, the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}