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Whenever I visit my parents’ house—cradled among the rolling hills of Amish-town, Pennsylvania—I always make at least one trek to the big city and hit up Pennsylvania Macaroni Company. Why? Cheese. That’s why.
Penn Mac’s website says, “Pittsburgh’s #1 Italian imported foods store,” but that’s selling their own business short. Yes—Penn Mac has plenty of pasta, Italian cheeses, meats, bread, pickled things, olive oil, flour, and other provisions of that nature, but the store low-key has one of the best imported cheese programs in the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest. I’m saying this confidently from Detroit, as I have yet to encounter an imported cheese store around here that can match Penn Mac’s dairy prowess.
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company, in operation since 1902, has decades long relationships with food purveyors both domestic and foreign. They import more than 500 different cheeses from many different countries—notably Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, and Denmark—and the cheese mongers know these products like the back of their hand. That’s because the company has invested in their employees’ growth.
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