No cheese is as easily snackable as string cheese, so it's nice to know that it doesn't get its characteristic pull-apart texture from artificial additives. Quite the contrary, the original string ...

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And while all of those wins are feathers in our state’s noble cap, one win feels especially important: Best string cheese, two years in a row. And no, the award didn’t go to Tillamook.

Today, that creamery produces the best string cheese in America, according to the American Cheese Society’s 2024 competition. In the late 1990s, after the Ochoa family moved to Eugene ...