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Why I love Wisconsin:
"Cheese really is part of our identity,” said Terese Allen, a former president of the Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin who writes about the state’s culinary folklore. “Cheese is the perfect illustration of the Wisconsin personality - casual, fun people who like to make fun of things, including ourselves.”
And so, by turns, the prospect of California’s dominance has sent Wisconsinites into various stages of cheese grief: denial (cows like cold weather, they say, and the hot West Coast climate will never produce the tasty pastures grown for them around here); condescension (many of California’s top cheese-making minds were imported from Wisconsin, they say); and, eventually, resigned indifference (it is the taste, the quality, they conclude, not the quantity of cheese that should matter most).
From the New York Times in an article about the rising cheese production in California. And its so true, when the "Happy Cheese comes from Happy Cows" ads come on, I cry a little bit. I really love cheese. And Wisconsin, for that matter.
All this cheese talk has made me hungery...
"Cheese really is part of our identity,” said Terese Allen, a former president of the Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin who writes about the state’s culinary folklore. “Cheese is the perfect illustration of the Wisconsin personality - casual, fun people who like to make fun of things, including ourselves.”
And so, by turns, the prospect of California’s dominance has sent Wisconsinites into various stages of cheese grief: denial (cows like cold weather, they say, and the hot West Coast climate will never produce the tasty pastures grown for them around here); condescension (many of California’s top cheese-making minds were imported from Wisconsin, they say); and, eventually, resigned indifference (it is the taste, the quality, they conclude, not the quantity of cheese that should matter most).
From the New York Times in an article about the rising cheese production in California. And its so true, when the "Happy Cheese comes from Happy Cows" ads come on, I cry a little bit. I really love cheese. And Wisconsin, for that matter.
All this cheese talk has made me hungery...