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Article: Iowa-Made Blue Cheese Has Cult Following
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- January 9, 2004
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DAVID PITT, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-09-2004
Dateline: NEWTON, Iowa
Sacre bleu! Cheese, that is.
Maytag blue cheese, a piquant blue-veined cheese aged in subterranean vaults or "caves" beneath this central Iowa city, has developed a cult following among gourmets.
Chef Emeril Lagasse, for example, lists at least 27 recipes calling specifically for Maytag Blue Cheese on his Web site. Among them are a Classic Cobb salad with half a pound of blue cheese, Maytag Blue Mac and Cheese and beef roulades with Maytag Blue Cheese and walnuts.
The Maytag name is no coincidence. The cheese was developed in 1941 by the grandsons of washing machine inventor Frederick Maytag.
Maytag's son, Elmer ...