Central Point, Oregon, on old Highway 99, behind a hand-painted wall reading The Maker of Oregon Blue Cheese. It began in 1933 as a co-op set up to keep Depression-era dairy farmers solvent, and its Rogue River Blue has since taken the World Cheese Awards title twice — including 2019, when it became the first American cheese ever named World Champion. The counter runs to curds, wheels and a grilled cheese, ten to five, seven days.