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Cheese for the Record Books

March 6, 2018 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Biggest cheese ever? I would have nominated the 400-pound Crucolo, a cow’s-milk giant from Northern Italy. I’ve never seen it but maybe you have. This massive mamma steals the stage every December when the owner of a Concord, Massachusetts, shop parades it through the streets. A wheel is coming to the West Coast next week, so more of us can see what a cheese that weighs as much as two large men looks like. But, alas, it’s not the world’s biggest.

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In From: Italy, Milk: Cow Tags Crucolo, Market Hall Foods, Concord Cheese Shop, Italian cheese
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