Minnesota’s leading butter sculptor, who has completed more than 500 butter princess heads with her kitchen knife, “Old Faithful,” is passing the torch
Photo: Lorie Shaull Imagine this: You’re the daughter of a Minnesotan dairy farmer. You enter the state’s dairy pageant, a three-phase competition to select a goodwill ambassador for all of Minnesota’s dairy farmers. If you are crowned dairy princess, your title will be Princess Kay of the Milky Way.
Sadly, I do not live in Minnesota, nor do I meet the requirements of dairy princesses, according to the handbook, which include “sufficient knowledge of dairy production.” Also, the supremely talented butter sculptor Linda Christensen has suddenly decided to retire after 50 years of good, honest dairy molding, crushing my dreams of seeing my own visage as a butter sculpture.
Butter sculpture as a genre is not uncommon; many state fairs present life-size butter cows, and this year’s New York State Fair featured an entire diorama of children going back to school, all chiseled from 800 pounds of dairy spread. But human likeness is apparently quite unique, especially doing it live. Christensen told the Post she doesn’t know any other artists who perform the same annual duties.
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