It's October 16th, I'm on a layover in the Phoenix airport, and I need to find a cheese to post about. I type "cheese" into the foursquare explore function and lo and behold there is a bar which serves many cheese dishes. The Barfly Genuine Food and Drink just happens to be near my gate. Kismet.
I, somewhat embarrassingly, explain to my server my ACM project and ask if she knows where the mozzarella on the bruschetta is from. She comes back to tell me it's Galbani Mozzarella and it's made in the US. I order and quickly confirm on my phone. Sipping my Kiltlifter, I see that it's a large Italian cheese company that now also produces in the US. Satisfied with this information, I eagerly await my last carby meal for the next few weeks.
Now that I've looked into it - Galbani is part of one of the largest dairy conglomerates worldwide - Lactalis. Not exactly what I wanted to focus on during my American Cheese Month posts, but my food was good. Of course because Lactalis has cheese factories everywhere I wasn't actually able to pinpoint where my mozzarella came from. This would be something you can find in the grocery store as well as in many restaurants serving mozz dishes. I try to support local, but I guess I did my best given the situation. Hey, I was drinking a Tempe beer.
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