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Maayan Silver

Is eating cheese on your resume? In Wisconsin, it could be

Cheese testers lean in to inspect pizzas at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Dairy Research in Madison. (Maayan Silver/WUWM)

When the University of Wisconsin's Center for Dairy Research publicized it was looking for a new crew of cheese tasters, the response was exuberant, as you might expect in a state known as the country's cheese capital.

250 people applied for five part-time jobs available. The Center rigorously trains them to analyze cheese made and provided by graduate student researchers, pizza makers and the state's esteemed cheese industry.

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