Christensen cuts into a 90-pound block of butter with a knife she calls 'Old Faithful.' She works inside a refrigerated booth chilled to just 40 degrees.
At the great Minnesota get-together that is the State Fair in St. Paul, a lot of time is simply spent eating together. But to see what is perhaps this fair's most unusual tradition, step inside the Dairy Building, where a beloved indulgence is being transformed into a very unconventional work of art.
Over the course of about a single day, she painstakingly creates what Minnesotans affectionately call a "butter head." "I get as much of the face done as I can right at first," she said. Former Princesses often return to the fairgrounds to show their gratitude. One woman told Christensen, "You carved my head 21 years ago in the butter booth. You've given us one of the greatest gifts a farm girl in Minnesota could have, and that's to be a butter head!"Linda Christensen. / Credit: CBS News
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