If you're from the American South or Midwest, you may have heard of hoop cheese, as the red wax-covered wheel of cheese was a ...

Hoop cheese is a traditional cheese that is made solely from milk, with all the whey pressed out. Unlike traditional farmer’s cheese, it does not contain cream and salt. The cheese is molded into a ...

The wheel sat on a rotating round board, with a large knife suspended above that could cut a wedge of a precise weight for a ...