GORDON EDGAR, CHEESEMONGER: A LIFE ON THE WEDGE

Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar’s unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco’s worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered a whole world of amazing artisan cheeses. There he developed a deep understanding and respect for the styles, producers, animals, and techniques that go into making great cheese.

Gordon Edgar is the cheesemonger for Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco’s biggest independent grocery and the country’s largest retail worker co-op. He has been a panelist and judge at numerous industry cheese events, helps organize national and regional worker-co-op conferences and regional cheese conferences, and serves on the board for the California Artisan Cheese Guild. A blogger, he has also written for HipMama.com, Clamor Magazine, and MaximumRocknRoll.

"Smart, compassionate, and fun to read, Cheesemonger took me by surprise! Who would expect the memoir of a cheese man to be so fascinating, playful, and refreshing? It's great to hear a voice on food from the punk route, and Gordon Edgar brings a fresh and important perspective that we could all use for hand-made foods, those that aren't, and the people who buy them." —Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

 

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