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Article: LOVE AT FIRST BITE; Winning an American Dairy title was a piece of cheese for Wendy Steele
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- June 19, 2002
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Twenty-nine years ago, Robert and I experienced our first kiss in
a walk-in refrigerator full of cheeses. We became partners in our own
cheese business and in life. We recently celebrated 28 years of
marriage. Ahh, the power of cheese! -- Wendy Steele's winning essay
THEIRS IS A CLASSIC LOVE STORY that began with a romantic
rendezvous in a walk-in refrigerator.
OK, it's a little cheesy.
Wendy Kuyat thought bartender/cheese shop owner Robert Steele was
cute. So she left him a $1 tip on a 25-cent beer.
Robert didn't notice. So Wendy tried something drastic.
At a party at Robert's Wilmington, Del., cheese shop, she made her
move. When the host headed into the walk-in refrigerator for more ...