The Origins of Mac and Cheese

The origins of mac and cheese, if you think about it, are in French based cookery. The original recipe to me was a French morné, morné,. variation of a mother saucy ad cheese to a beshamel. It's very much like a... It's pasta gratin is what it is. And then as we into 1850, the first cheese factory opens in America. We ended up getting, craft macaroni and cheese takes all off the space-age food story. There's literally a product in the 1950s that was marketed to housewives that was macaroni cheese. So that is when our perceptions here in U.S. shifted