(NATIONAL) — Just like potato chips, once you start eating cheese curds, it’s difficult to stop. As the youngest version of cheese, they have a very mild flavor and a uniquely bouncy texture that can ...

When cheese is manufactured, the milk is clotted and some of the water removed. You end up with a curd, a tough structure in which the proteins in the cheese form a mesh. That mesh is held together ...

John A. Lucey, director of the Center for Dairy Research, is working with researchers to extend the period of squeakiness in fresh cheese curds.

When the hankering for cheese curds hits, there's no need to head to the Badger State. There's one Aldi appetizer that ...

There were aspects I liked about each one, but Culver's blew the others away. The Midwest may claim cheese curds as its own, but the savory snack can be traced back to Ancient Rome. Luckily, dairy ...

Dairy Queen's skippable cheese curds "are more of a hit or miss item," and the variable increases even more broadly depending on which DQ location you visit.

A few years ago, I followed the life of a cheese curd, from milk on a dairy farm to fresh cheese in Ellsworth, Wis., to deep-fried glory at the Fair. On the Fairgrounds, though, there are plenty of ...