Food Friday: Chicago’s cheesemonger champion

Chicago cheese expert Cara Condon took home the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational top prize in New York.

By Christian Elliott
Cheese competition wheel of Swiss
A wheel of baby Swiss cheese is displayed at the biennial World Championship Cheese Contest, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wis. Carrie Antlfinger / Associated Press
Cheese competition wheel of Swiss
A wheel of baby Swiss cheese is displayed at the biennial World Championship Cheese Contest, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wis. Carrie Antlfinger / Associated Press

Food Friday: Chicago’s cheesemonger champion

Chicago cheese expert Cara Condon took home the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational top prize in New York.

By Christian Elliott
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Reset checks in with the award-winning cheesemonger about the competition and her work.

GUEST: Cara Condon, cheese expert at Beautiful Rind in Logan Square