Fried cheese needs no introduction.
But that wasn’t the case for fried cheese curds a decade ago in Raleigh. This Midwestern delicacy was seldom seen in the Triangle when Lisa Germain helped her son move to Raleigh in 2015, a travesty in her eyes.
“We went out bar-hopping and there were no cheese curds anywhere,” Germain said. “Nobody knew what a cheese curd was. That’s when a lightbulb went off. I knew we needed to bring these down here.”…