Switzerland's big cheese

A generations-old family business in Gruyères churns out the town's eponymous dairy offering

Gruyere cheese making
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse))

Ah, the power of Gruyère.

The firm cheese keeps Jacques Murith and his family — sons Pierre and Alexandre, along with wife Elian — busy from beginning of the day to end. Nestled high in the mountains of western Switzerland sits the town of Gruyères, and it is there that the family's cheese-making operation churns out around 200 wheels — weighing as much as 90 pounds each — of Gruyère each year.

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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.