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Beecher's Mac and Cheese (Image/Oprah.com)

Beecher's is one of Oprah's favorite things

November 19, 2010 @ 1:18 pm (Updated: 1:37 pm - 3/28/11 )

MyNorthwest.com staff

Oprah's annual "Favorite Things" episode, which aired Friday, featured extravagant and sensible gifts, as well as a tasty treat from an iconic Seattle cheese shop.

Beecher's Mac and Cheese made the list, and her audience got some to sample.

"We ship quite a bit of our mac and cheese frozen around the country," said Kurt Beecher Dammier, owner of Beecher's Handmade Cheese. "Each of the audience members gets a shipment from us, plus they got to eat it live in the studio."

On her website, Oprah said "The best part [is] it comes frozen. All you have to do is heat it up, and you've got yourself some good eatin' from Beecher's."

Dammier said they watched the east coast feed of the show on Friday, and that "[Oprah] obviously really, really liked it."

According to Dammier their flagship cheese is really the core of the traditional dish. "It's a very simple recipe that was created by a few of us together."

On Friday afternoon, the Beecher's website stated that due to heavy web traffic, they were only able to offer a limited version of their website, but visitors could still order the award-winning, and now Oprah-approved, Mac and Cheese.

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  • Zoeller wrote...
    Great this is all we need.
    November 19, 2010 6:01 pm
    Another several 100 thousand over weght coach people eating Mac and Cheese for dinner every night. I am sure most of her viewers already look like her. Call 911 now....We are all going to Hell in an Oprah fat basket!!!!!
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  • Zoeller wrote...
    Weight
    November 19, 2010 6:05 pm
    Too many Four Loco's lol....
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  • Snout wrote...
    Oh oh it's magic.
    November 19, 2010 9:13 pm
    And some poor woman is gonna fork over the $8 for some noodles and cheese instead of getting a cookbook and figuring out that home made stuff is Waaaay better and pretty easy to make. Yeah Oprah and Obamunism. NO YOU CAN'T!!!
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  • BMC wrote...
    HB thnkin'.....
    November 19, 2010 10:22 pm
    Mac 'an cheese ? Oprah, y'all should be eatin' gazelle 'an maybe a little gator... throw in a few herbs. 'Yall can't keep a handle on your handles until 'yall stop stuffin' your face......NO OFFENSE. Double size ??????? BMC
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Food Gestapo!
    November 20, 2010 7:30 am
    Since Oprah has such a large audience, how long before the regime dispatches the food Comisar Michelle and the Protection Squad to her door and demanding that she tell her audience to put down the fork and pick up the dumbbells?

    It's what's best for us! You know.

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  • DickeyDoo wrote...
    What a bunch of easily led Clowns!
    November 21, 2010 7:32 am
    Some of you are actually bashing Mac and Cheese because its endorsed by Opra, give us a break! One can only imagine what some of you would do or say if Opra endorsed the pilots of AG51. I bet the worst of you could be led to give the stink eye to them as well. Fools, this is how nations of fools are drawn from for fighting desperate causes, like Stalin-ism.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Hey dickydoo
    November 21, 2010 3:09 pm
    I love Mac and Cheese with lots of ketchup on it!

    What I am joking about (Am I joking?) is the Obama government beginning to restrict what foods we Americans can eat.

    Yes this nation is becoming more plum, but it is not up to the Obama's to tell us what we can and cannot stuff into our faces!

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