Mike Guentzel of Coon Rapids said there’s been one constant in his three visits to the Minnesota State Fair this year. “I’ve had cheese curds every time,” he said Thursday, Aug. 30, as he ...

We're traveling to 50 Portland restaurants to try one distinctive food from each state. Our 50 Plates tour continues with fried cheese curds from Wisconsin, which joined the union on M ay 29, 1848 .

Luckily, I’m still based in Wisconsin, so I can make my favorite state fair food at home any time I please thanks to the endless supply of squeaky, farm-fresh cheese curds at my local supermarket.

The Wisconsin State Fair might be canceled for 2020, but food on a stick lives on. The Fair Food Drive-Thru will have food vendors stationed throughout the fairgrounds in West Allis selling corn ...

He has claimed the Mustard Belt 11 times. This year, he ate 74 hot dogs (with buns) in 10 minutes. Chestnut holds more than 40 eating records, gobbling up everything from apple pie to Twinkies.

It doesn't get more Wisconsin than fried cheese curds. A regular serving is $8, but if you're feeling hungry or sharing, a bucket is $18. And if you get thirsty, freshly squeezed lemonade in ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Curderburger from Culver's was king on this year's National Cheese Curd Day, but it's important to remember the restaurant chain locally sources its cheese from farms in ...

Description: deep-fried fresh cheese curds dipped in a sweet beer batter mixed with crispy bacon, topped with cinnamon sugar, cream cheese frosting, bacon crumbles. Deep fried cheese curds are a ...

WEST ALLIS -- The world’s top competitive eaters gathered in Wisconsin for the inaugural Cheese Curd-Eating Championship on Saturday, Aug. 11. The competition took place at the Associated Bank ...

Folks from Wisconsin proudly go by the name Cheeseheads. Indeed, the state leads the nation in cheese-making, producing some 2.5 billion pounds of cheddars, mozzarellas, muensters and more a year.

A basket of Mouth Trap deep-fried cheese curds shimmers under the neon lights of the Minnesota State Fair Food Building on August 31, 2022. The Mouth Trap brings in 6,000 pounds of fresh cheese ...