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A wheel of milk that learned to ripen toward delicious decay and stops just before disaster.
living crustThat white rind is edible mold, intentionally cultivated
napoleon eraBorn in Normandy around the French Revolution, 1791
the boxWooden boxes let it survive long train journeys
ripens inwardSoftens from the rind toward the center over weeks
runny goalPerfect when the core nearly oozes at room temperature