The Pike Place Market mac, baked in a cast-iron skillet with Beecher's Flagship cheddar and Just Jack. Oprah named it one of her favourite things in 2008.

Kurt Beecher Dammeier opened Beecher's Handmade Cheese at 1600 Pike Place in 2003, with the curds-and-press operation visible behind glass. The mac and cheese, code-named World's Best, debuted that year on the counter menu: penne tossed in a sauce of Beecher's Flagship cheddar, Just Jack and a touch of cream, then portioned and re-baked to order. In 2008 Oprah Winfrey put it on her annual Favourite Things list and the line outside the shop has not shortened since. The cheese itself is a Pacific Northwest cow's-milk cheddar, aged on premises and sold by the wedge to the same tourists who order the mac to-go. There is now a New York City outpost in Flatiron and a third location at Sea-Tac, but the Pike Place counter is the original.

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