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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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One Thousand Days to Greatness

February 20, 2024 janet@janetfletcher.com

By a wide margin, guests in a recent class of mine voted the cheese pictured above as their favorite. It bested a luscious goat cheese from one of Italy’s acclaimed affineurs, a tasty farmhouse Cheddar from the UK, the pimiento-dusted Alisios from Spain and several others. Wow—such an impressive showing for a largely self-taught cheesemaker from rural Iowa.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags Gouda, Iowa cheese, Frisian Farms
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Iowa's a Blue State Again

November 21, 2017 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Welcome back, Maytag Blue. We’ve missed you. Just in time for holiday cheese boards, this beloved Iowa product has returned to shops. It has been almost two years since Maytag Dairy Farms suspended production, in the aftermath of a positive test for Listeria in two lots of cheese. (No related illnesses were ever reported.) The road back has been longer and costlier than the owners imagined, but they managed to find a silver lining in this traumatic experience.

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In Milk: Cow, From: U.S. Tags Maytag Dairy Farms, Maytag Blue, Iowa, Iowa cheese, Iowa State University
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