Articles written by Will Fertman
Will Fertman is a writer and food business entrepreneur living in Berkeley, CA. A former staff writer and web manager for culture, Will wrote the Ruminations column for the magazine and spent lots of time wrangling social media. Today Will is the Director of Content and co-founder at the monger, a data-driven platform for the specialty food industry, supplying accountable information and transactions for producers, distributors, retailers, foodservice and consumers.
The Supposed Science of Food Pairings, the Culinary Genome, and the Creative Process
Is pairing flavors a science, an art form, or up to individual taste?
Pairing Taza Chocolate with Cheese
In honor of Valentine’s Day, culture is celebrating wonderful cheese and chocolate pairing suggestions with the help of Taza Chocolate and Formaggio Kitchen
The Unfunny Side of Mass Food Casualty…
In the modern food era, food-related disasters are becoming all too common
Karma Chameleon
Sometimes, when you put out good karma to the world, you are repaid with a (cheesy) reward
Ruminations: Come Together… with Cheese Clubs
One writer contemplates cheese clubs and the power of cheese as a social adhesive throughout history
Ruminations: Tales of Good Cheese Gone Bad
The dark underbelly of the cheese world is exposed in these true tales of cheese crime
Ruminations: China’s Cheese Vacancy
“Made in China” applies to everything but fine cheese… what’s the explanation for this vacancy in the field of Chinese cheese?
Ungrilled Cheese Sandwich
The ungrilled cheese sandwich is the way to go: weren’t sandwiches made to go where kitchens can’t?
Ruminations: The Origin of Cheese
While today the origin of cheese as food is still disputed, in the middle ages (and earlier) some believed that cheese was the stuff of earthly creation
