When you hear pimento cheese, I’m sure the South comes to your mind, and for good reason- it’s a Southern staple. But a little known fact is that pimento cheese was invented north of the Mason-Dixon Line, specifically in my home state of New York.
According to Serious Eats, back in the 1870s, New York farmers started making a soft, unripened cheese that eventually evolved into cream cheese. Around the same time, Spain started sending canned red peppers or “pimiento” over to the United States. The two ingredients were eventually brought together in 1908, in a Good Housekeeping recipe that called for cream cheese, mustard, chives, and minced pimentos. The combination of cream cheese and pimento was such a hit, it started to be mass produced and sold in many regions across the Country.
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