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.

This is Most Great Radio from PRX.

I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

In Norway, cod season can be lucrative, both for fishermen and for a group of young kids who are known as tongue cutters.

It was shocking for me. I had never earned my own money.

And you see in the newspapers here in Norway, the girls and boys who earn up to 12,000 a day.

And if you just have the motivation, you can just stand there for like hours and hours and do it.

That was Ilva, Melkaran Lundel.

She learned how to cut tongues when she was just nine.

Later on the show, we'll hear from her and her aunt,

Solvee Melkaran, a former tongue cutter,

who made a documentary about this tradition.

But first is my interview with journalist Kenji Hall, who went on a quest

across Japan to taste the world's best rice. Kenji, welcome to Milk Street. Thank you very much.

Thank you for having me. So life's getting complicated. Coffee's complicated,

wine's complicated, and now rice is complicated. I used to think it was like long grain,

short grain, sushi rice, risotto rice, and brown rice. But you're here to tell us that there are

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