Journey of a Cheese Head
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gordonzolaJourney of a Cheese Head
One of the most striking things at this year's Festival of Cheese were the cheese sculptures. Mock away, but they were totally awesome. They were done by a cheese artist who calls herself, as do many other women in cheese, The Cheese Lady.
We were welcomed with the American Cheese Society logo carved out of cheese
The Cheese Lady even did the conference art out of many different types of cheese. Here's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nunofthat posing with it.
You can make great animal heads out of cheese
But how appropriate to carve a pained-looking woman out of cheese in order to symbolize not only the body issues that our society creates, but the pain of having to eat low fat cheese? This sculpture welcomed eaters to the segregated low fat/low salt table. Those cheeses are in the competition but thankfully the organizers had them in a well-defined, far-side-of-the-hall location
But then when I walked into the cheese auction when the conference was done, I knew what I had to purchase. There it was staring me right in the face. $5 for most of a blue ribbon-winning 40lb. block of Farmers cheese. How could I resist?
Something about stuffing a head of anything in the trunk of a car makes one look thuggy, don't you think? (Thanks for the pic Jessamyn)
Isn't my rental car shiny?
Finally, a few hundred miles away, I arrive at the small town Pennsylvanian home of some of my oldest friends. No one expects 30 lbs. of cheese head as a present!
But Kyle loves it!
And so does one of his daughters
The End.
One of the most striking things at this year's Festival of Cheese were the cheese sculptures. Mock away, but they were totally awesome. They were done by a cheese artist who calls herself, as do many other women in cheese, The Cheese Lady.
We were welcomed with the American Cheese Society logo carved out of cheese
The Cheese Lady even did the conference art out of many different types of cheese. Here's
nunofthat posing with it.You can make great animal heads out of cheese
But how appropriate to carve a pained-looking woman out of cheese in order to symbolize not only the body issues that our society creates, but the pain of having to eat low fat cheese? This sculpture welcomed eaters to the segregated low fat/low salt table. Those cheeses are in the competition but thankfully the organizers had them in a well-defined, far-side-of-the-hall location
But then when I walked into the cheese auction when the conference was done, I knew what I had to purchase. There it was staring me right in the face. $5 for most of a blue ribbon-winning 40lb. block of Farmers cheese. How could I resist?
Something about stuffing a head of anything in the trunk of a car makes one look thuggy, don't you think? (Thanks for the pic Jessamyn)
Isn't my rental car shiny?
Finally, a few hundred miles away, I arrive at the small town Pennsylvanian home of some of my oldest friends. No one expects 30 lbs. of cheese head as a present!
But Kyle loves it!
And so does one of his daughters
The End.
