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Thomas Keller gets the butter for his restaurants from 6 cows in Vermont. The woman who owns them sells more than 80% of her butter to Keller: "When you're small you can have a relationship with the people who buy your food. The reason I'm not big is because I'm a perfectionist. I've got to sell to someone who is the same way."
How the presiding monarch of the Minnesota State Fair, Princesss Kay of the Milky Way, is selected...ending with her coronation and her likeness carved into a giant block of butter.
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