Fancier Cheese, Please!

Black & bleu burgers, queso fresco potato chips, and Asiago bagels … the list of food products accented or flavored with cheese is long and appears to be growing longer. More so than ever before, cheese has become a powerful food product differentiator. Over the past five years, volume sales of specialty cheeses have increased five times as fast as the cheese category overall, according to Dairy Foods magazine’s 2017 State of the Industry report.

Mozzarella, Italian varieties, A…