The Finnish Cheese That’s Baked Like Bread and Dunked in Coffee

The Finnish Cheese That’s Baked Like Bread and Dunked in Coffee
This unusual Finnish variety of cheese has brown spots on it from baking. rainbow33/shutterstock
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At the Dane County Farmers Market around the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find a lot of local cheese, as you can imagine. One of them is a bit of a delicious spectacle: Brunkow Cheese draws a crowd around a large vendor tent, where folks line up, toothpicks in hand, to skewer samples of an unusual Finnish variety of cheese: juustoleipa (pronounced YOO-sto-LAY-pah).
The cheese-stabbing masses huddled around the Brunkow Cheese tent at the Dane County Farmers Market. (Kevin Revolinski)
The cheese-stabbing masses huddled around the Brunkow Cheese tent at the Dane County Farmers Market. Kevin Revolinski
Kevin Revolinski
Kevin Revolinski
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Kevin Revolinski is an avid traveler, craft beer enthusiast, and home-cooking fan. He is the author of 15 books, including “The Yogurt Man Cometh: Tales of an American Teacher in Turkey” and his new collection of short stories, “Stealing Away.” He’s based in Madison, Wis., and his website is TheMadTraveler.com
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