South Carolina city launches pimento cheese passport
Beer passports are a popular marketing and tourism tool for communities with high concentrations of breweries. The idea…
The Takeout's fantasy food draft: Best burger topping
Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and…
Pizzeria makes world record pie with 154 cheeses
We will never tire of bringing you cheese news. Or pizza news. Or record-breaking, 154-cheese-topped pizza news. Guinnes…
Will this cheese nacho?
“What hath God wrought?!?” one of my guests exclaimed as I frantically whisked a bubbling pot of cheese in the next…
Behold the Rocky Balburrito, a stadium food worth running up many steps for
The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Class-A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, a club that calls the Fifth Third Ballpark…
Artist building wall of cheese at Mexico border to “Make America Grate Again”
There are currently 200 blocks of cotija cheese stacked and ripening in the sun at the United States border with…
Kraft macaroni & cheese unicorns are real
Kraft, a time-tested brand with a ubiquitous little blue box, has long found ways to fold the world of pop-culture into…
The Provolone End Theory: Cheese may taste better if it listens to A Tribe Called Quest
When I woke up this morning, groggily fumbling the light on and attempting to brew my first cup of coffee, I did not…
Critics indict Beto O’Rourke for not ordering cheese curds at Culver’s
Perhaps Beto O’Rourke just enjoys a good crinkle-cut fry. But that’s no defense in the vigilant eyes of the internet,…
Cheese does not belong on every sandwich
You will find an entire smorgasbord of sandwiches at Max’s Sandwich Shop in North London, but if you are a cheese fan,…
Stop throwing cheese at babies
We guess this isn’t technically as stupid as eating Tide Pods, since no one’s gotten sick or died (yet), but this ranks…
Aldi’s green and boozy cheeses might just make us tolerate St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day in the U.S. can be a miserable, miserable affair. There’s puking and yelling and some truly vile…
Costco offering 24-pound wedding cake made of fancy cheese
In its continuing efforts to anticipate our every thought and whim, Costco now carries a wedding cake made out of…
Aldi invites us to “Take On Brie” with cheeses named for sick ’80s jams
The 61st Annual Grammy Awards will air on Sunday, sans Ariana Grande, and if you can’t get your cheese via “Thank U,…
It’s hard out there for a pregnant, cheese-loving food writer
Hello, I’m pregnant. And I’m thrilled! And so grateful that sometimes I get a little weepy! My son will turn four…
Cheesy Hash Elegante is Midwestelicious
This cheesy hash brown casserole doesn’t technically have hash browns, and isn’t what you’d typically think of as a…
I made that queso
Fox News anchor Dana Perino became a social media punchline faster than it took Velveeta to melt. On Super Bowl Sunday,…
That lady’s queso didn’t look like queso
You can find all manner of dips at most Super Bowl parties. I myself enjoyed some sort of Buffalo chicken-cheese…
It's surprisingly easy—and worth it—to make ricotta at home
Welcome to Cheese Week, The Takeout’s weeklong praise of cheeses.
Swiss Swiss, bish: Inside the world of competitive cheesemongering
It’s 6 p.m. on a Sunday night in San Francisco, and I’m surrounded by people screaming animal noises.