Quel fromage?! Does ski sweetheart Lindsey Vonn owe her downhill gold to an
obscure cheese curd she slathered on her badly bruised shin? We may never know,
but good luck finding her topfen outside Austria.
The spreadable staple eaten alone and baked into such delights as strudel
stumped some U.S. cheese sellers when it surfaced in Vonn’s medical kit to help
ease swelling after a Feb. 2 injury during training in Austria.
What’s it called? Is it from cows?
“I’ve never heard of it,” said Zack Schafer, manager of Cheese Traders & Wine
Sellers in South Burlington Vermont ski country. “In this part of the world,
poutine’s pretty common, but I’d look at them quizzically if somebody put
poutine on an injury.”
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