Americans Take Home The Nation’s First Gold Medal In The ‘Cheesemonger Olympics’

Americans Take Home The Nation’s First Gold Medal In The ‘Cheesemonger Olympics’

Americans Take Home The Nation’s First Gold Medal In The ‘Cheesemonger Olympics’ Emila D’Albero – via Instagram In France, where cheese has a museum, and there’s a hospital ward for foreigners who get sick eating French cheese, is it really a surprise that they have a cheesemonger olympics? A cheesemonger is the person who sources and sells cheese to the community—a respectable profession says Emilia D’Albero, the first US woman, and the first American to boot, to win gold in said olympics. From Philadelphia, the city where she learned the profession at the Philly Cheese School, D’Albero has been cheesemongering for years under the TikTok handle @punkrockparmigiano, but it was her first time medaling at the olympics, held in Tours, France. “My teammate, Courtney Johnson, and I are the first all-female team USA,” D’Albero told CBS News. “They had never sent two girls before.” Beating out cheese stronghold nations like Switzerland, Spain, Italy, and of course, France, D’Albero had to compete …