Andrew Jackson's White House once hosted a cheese feeding frenzy

Andrew Jackson's White House once hosted a cheese feeding frenzy The seventh president's farewell party featured 1,400 pounds of cheddar. In 1835, a New York dairy farmer sent President Andrew Jackson a 1,400-pound cheddar cheese to celebrate the president's second inauguration. Two years later, it was finally eaten. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's February 1837, and the White House is about to bear witness to one of the greatest feeding frenzies in this nation's proud history of competitive consumption.