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Utah. You are an enigma. For years I went on through life
believing that you had little or nothing to teach me in the ways
of food. In the map of my mind, Utah was a black hole of
culinary tradition, stuck between the California farmlands and
the breadbasket of America that is the Midwest.  Utah, oh Utah.
I admit. I was wrong.  The first clue that I was incorrect in my
thinking was provided by a piece of evidence that I
misinterpreted : Green Jello.  I first heard of your passion for
green Jello back when Bill Cosby asked your state legislature to
make Jello the state snack. In the back of my mind, I chuckled a
bit. Jello? You do know that Kraft makes the stuff, right? The
idea of Jello becoming a state snack was as ludicrous as making
Cheez Whiz the state cheese.  And then I saw the Jello lapel
pins that were sold at the Winter Olympics in 2002. My mind was
aghast. I didn’t know whether to mock you, or applaud you. It
appears as if you have a severe