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Excellent post! Love your food history writing — and now I want to rename the cheese. So many layers to this one!

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also, it is the crisp and bubbling cheese here that does it for me. I may watch again before bed, to calm my nerves..... thank you!

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Thank you for all of this! In addition to theft on 50 different levels, it is a true testament to the neutralizing of flavor in all US food-- let's make it shippable and brandable no matter how much taste and texture we remove, how much crap we add, so that we can become rich, because we are all greedy greedy bastards. I am from Wisconsin, home of ---600? cheeses? so this is a subject dear to my heart and definitely, unfortunately, par for the course.

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I will be in Wisconsin in August! LOL! I've never been before.

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really?!! on a book tour? I am in Madison, and happy to add my two cents if you need anything! August is a pretty good time to be in the state. It can get pretty humid, but should be showing well. You will definitely be able to find some cheese.

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Not on a book tour. LOL. I'm working on a top secret campaign there.

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Wow, this history makes me question my love for Monterey Jack... and didn't know all that! I found out some of my ancestors in NY were dairy farmers, I wish they made cheese lol. I saw CBS morning or one of those news shows do a whole spot on California wildflowers and showed the poppy+lupine and I immediately recognized it from your newsletter. In NY we have goldenrod and aster, which end up being purple+yellow. These particular color combos of yellow+purple, orange+blue attract pollinators. Nature is remarkable! Robin Wall Kimmerer explains it much more poetically in Braiding Sweetgrass.

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"...These particular color combos of yellow+purple, orange+blue attract pollinators." I did not know that! Makes sense on why so many of our native prairie wildflowers are these colors. Thank you!

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Thanks! Outstanding writing. From know on, I’ll remember the Monterey Jack cheese that I use in my lasagna as ‘greedy Jack’.

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LOL

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Hey hey! New paid subscriber. Ig is kels.beck.

ALSO the number of times I've seen "immigrated from Germany in the mid 1800s" and bruh. They really got around.

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Just added! Should be able to see today's day trip on the close friends list.

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Totally loving the history lesson! Thank you for sharing!

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Hi Illyanna! Just found you and am tickled with your writing and video. I’m new paid subscriber, insta is caryb56. Thanks!

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