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fromConde Nast Traveler
4 days ago

Women Who Travel Podcast: Hiking Through Italy, Gilded Age Homes, and Bombastic State Fairs

With a Scandanavian first name, German surname, Midwestern sensibilities, and Korean background, Meinzer seeks out the multi-hyphenate histories of others wherever her travels take her. She returns to the podcast to chat with Lale about her latest adventures-including hiking the ancient Via Francigena which begins in Chaucer's Cantebury and ends in Rome, beholding the magnificence and prestige of Gilded Age estates, and following dairy princess pageantry at the Minnesota State Fair.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

In Minnesota, 'dairy princesses' take home a 90-pound butter bust of their own heads

Princess Kay Thorson sat in a refrigerated glass studio while a sculptor carved her likeness from a 90-pound block of butter at the State Fair.
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