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December 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM

Whey ahead: The history of Pacific Northwest cheese

Posted by Rebekah Denn

It feels sometimes like the revolution of fine artisan cheeses in the Northwest began about a decade ago. That’s when Kurt Dammeier founded Beecher’s Handmade Cheese in Pike Place Market, bringing a high profile to not just his own products but to a cheese counter that was whey, whey full of other Northwest finds….

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