Chapter 3. Of Bandages and Blocks

I couldn’t include pictures in Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese so I am going to annotate the book here on my website.  That sounds like fun, right?  My favorite cheese picture ever is all the way down this page.

Cheese aging in Willi Lehner’s cave at Bleu Mont Dairy:

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Willi’s cave from outside:

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Crocks outside the aging room:

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Joe Widmer discussing Brick cheese.

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Aren’t these bricks pretty?

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I know it’s not cheddar, but here are the bricks weighing down the brick cheese

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Best cheese picture ever: preparing cheese sandwiches for the March on Washington, 1963

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(picture from this Smithsonian article)