Infographic of the Week: Is Mozzarella the New American Cheese? [Infographic]

Food+Tech, Infographics — By on December 2, 2011 11:37 am

The average American in 2009 consumed almost an ounce and a half of cheese a day, according to the Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System of the Economic Research Service (ERS), three times as much cheese as she or he did in 1970. But the kind of cheese we eat has also changed, perhaps because of the ever increasing popularity of pizza.

These charts, and many more, are available in December 2011 of Amber Waves, a publication by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 


About Beth Hoffman:
Beth Hoffman has reported on food and agriculture for ten years, airing on NPR, The World, Latino USA, Living on Earth, KUER and KALW , and studied the food system in depth as a fellow and co-lecturer in the Africa Reporting Project at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Hoffman competed a year long documentary project cooking with immigrant women in their homes, has traveled to India, Uganda and Ethiopia to report on rice production and chicken farming, and did a multipart series for KUER on the artistic, cultural and environmental connections we have to food. In addition to spending many hours on-farm in Utah, California and abroad, Hoffman also married into an Iowa farm family and is currently working with her husband to slowly convert the land into a sustainable orchard and hog farm. She currently lives in Albany, California. Hoffman’s previous work can be found on her website at bethaudio.com.
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