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Gordon Edgar loves cheese and worker-owned co-ops, and has been combining both of these infatuations as a cheesemonger at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San Francisco since 1994. Edgar has been a judge at cheese competitions, a board member for the California Artisan Cheese Guild, and, since 2002, has blogged at www.gordonzola.net. His book Cheesemonger was published in 2010 and Cheddar was published in 2015, both by Chelsea Green. Those train books are by another Gordon Edgar.
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	Cheesemonger 3.77 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cheddar can be pre-ordered!

Hey all, my next book Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese is now available for pre-order! It should be out sometime in October.

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“Formaggio di Fossa is a cheese that the locals of Sogliano sul Rubicone, in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, make and bury underground, which gives it a distinctive flavor that earthy only begins to describe. It’s spicy, perfumy (not stinky), and often bitter.”
― Gordon Edgar, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge

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“Fancy cheese loving is a denunciation of the genocide this nation was built upon and an indictment of American culture.”
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“There’s just a lot going on in good clothbound cheddar, and Lehner makes one of the best in the world. It’s not an easy cheese to make or age, but it’s also more challenging for the eater. You don’t just stick this in a ziplock bag until you get around to it. It’s appointment eating.”
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