My Cheese offers cheese spread like none you've tasted

Deborah Harsha has always loved the cheddar cheese spread that her father-in-aw created. She first tasted it when she was dating the man who would become her husband and they served the spread at their wedding reception.

 

"I've loved it so much for so long I decided I wanted to make it for others,"  Harsha says.

 

Now she hears that others are as addicted to the spread as she has been for years. 

 

Harsha became an entrepreneur with the opening of My Cheese, LLC, the maker of Vicksburg Cheddar Spread. She's excited about the possibilities because she has found research that shows this particular segment of the food industry is wide open and that she has little competition. 
 

When first-time tasters if her cheese spread is like the well-know Schuler's cheese spread, Harsha says about all they have in common is the color. 

 

She creates her cheese spread at the Can-Do Kitchen in Kalamazoo, but named her cheese after the place she loves and lives in. It also is a further tribute to her father-in-law who is from Vicksburg, too.

 

Harsha says the Can-Do Kitchen has helped her with many aspects of getting her business up and running and keeping it going. And she hopes to continue to make her cheese spread there as long as she can. "I may have to buy and donate equipment in order to keep working there," as long as is reasonable, she says.   

 

Her cheese spread currently is found at Marta's Fine Foods on Stadium Drive in Kalamazoo, Village 1872 coffee shop in Vicksburg, the Cheese Lady in Mattawan, and Continental Pastries and Delicatessen in Battle Creek. Harsha is talking with a local restaurant group in hopes they too will begin to serve her cheese spread. 

 

But you won't yet find the cheese spread on retail shelves. She currently only sells it in 2 pound containers, too big for retail sales. 

 

Though Harsha still has a day-job at Perrigo, starting up her own business is a process she has enjoyed immensely. She says she has been surprised at the way some aspects of the business she thought would be complicated were quite simple. 

 

What else do people need to know about Vicksburg Cheddar Spread? Harsha says her motto sums it up: "Your cheese life will never be the same."