Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin.

We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state,

and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. You will not want to miss

that. Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, art of cheesefestival.com,

and we'll see you there.

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Here's this week's show.

This is Milkstreet Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

Today I chat with Ronnie Lundy, author of Vittles, an Appalachian journey with recipes.

We talk about pickle bologna and what most people get wrong about Appalachia.

The mythology of Appalachia is that we are this monoculture.

The current iteration of this is that we're all Scotch-Irish and we're all irritated.

And we are irritated, but mostly because everybody thinks we're all Scotch-Irish.

Before my interview with Lundy, I chat with Mark Karlanski, well known for his books such as

Cod and Salt. Now, in his latest book, Karlanski tells the story of milk.

Mark, how are you? I'm great. How are you?

Well, I'm thrilled to talk to you. I read Cod.. It was my first Krolansky book a long time ago.

And your latest book, Milk, I also found to be at least as interesting as Cod. So let's start at the beginning, I guess, the Fulani people believe that the world started with a huge drop of milk.

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