The Pimento Cheese Guy

“We love cutting the cheese. We love grating the cheese. We love creating our own recipes,” says Andy Palmisano, owner of The Pimento Cheese Guy.

Palmisano said the company is a spin-off from Twila Mae’s Chicken Salad, another Marco Island Farmers’ Market vendor.

“We’re trying to bring back that kind of old southern tradition,” he said. “I first heard about pimento cheese from my grandmother, so we modernized it with different flavors.”

Palmisano, in his first season at the market with his pimento cheese offerings, sells classic, jalapeno, bacon ranch, and buffalo pimento cheese spreads, all handmade by him in Fort Myers.