Just outside of Nampa,
Idaho there is a
cheese factory. (There is also a
sugar refinery which
stinks up the whole
town, but that’s another
story.) When my
sisters and I were young
children and we got to visit our
grandparents in Nampa, It was a rare
treat to stop at that
cheese factory and get the amazing
delicacy we called
squeaky cheese.
Squeaky cheese is the fresh curd after it’s been separated from the whey, but before it’s pressed into molds. It’s light and cool and very smooth. It came moist, in nugget-shaped pieces and when we bit into them, they squeaked against our teeth.
I’d like to try it again. I haven’t tasted it in 20 years or more.
facty... let’s take a trip.