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I'm a writer living in Davis CA. I'm responsible for Ruminations, a column which appears in every issue of Culture, and I wrangle a lot of the social media for the magazine.

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May 09, 2013

A thriving grape farm.

Traditional long-stemmed winemug.

Here at the culture offices, we're excited...

Staff Blogs
March 20, 2013

Tasting Tuesdays have become a regular feature over at the Boston office, and when they asked me to pitch in, of course I said yes. It didn't hurt that they were sending me Beemster's XO Gouda, which is one of my avowedly favorite cheeses. XO is aged 26...

Community Culture
February 13, 2013

Once again, true love found a whey in our 2013 cheese-love poetry contest.

As usual, entries spanned from the impish to the outright racy, but...

Staff Blogs
December 09, 2012

As the year winds down and the best-of lists start flying, I'd be remiss not to single out some of the best, blog-est and most interesting cheese stuff we've encountered on the blog in 2012:

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Community Culture
November 06, 2012

After a period of reflection and repair in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the judges have reached their decision on our 2012 Scary Dairy Contest.

First prize goes to Erin Thorne's gooey tale of cheese voodoo

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Community Culture
October 26, 2012

What is Scary Dairy? It's the rasp of a grater wielded by a mad monger, a ghostly image imprinted on the face of the pizza, the cold panic of losing your bread in the burbling depths of the fondue.

Scary Dairy is our annual Halloween short story contest.

The rules are simple: spin a spooky cheese-centric tale of terror in...

Community Culture
October 13, 2012

Just a reminder: our deadline for our Thanksgiving Recipe Contest is Sunday, October 28.

If your goat cheese dish is one of the three deemed turkey-worthy, Laura Chenel's Chevre will send this for your conucopia:

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Community Culture
October 01, 2012

It's nearly that time of year again. The family gathers, sounds of football playing in the background. The table is set. It groans with food: the massive brown bird, the hot stuffing, rich with gravy. Potatoes, sweet and mashed. Pies, at least pumpkin, or sweet potato; sometimes apple and more.

WHAT'S MISSING FROM THIS PICTURE?...


August 17, 2012

Hungry up-and-comers Y.N. Rich Kids dropped a seriously dope track that's on its way to becoming this summer's #1 jam. Big ups to Hot Cheetos, and some tight lyrics from the Y.N. crew:

yo, i'm hungry where them cheetos at?
they stay bitin' like where them mosquitoes at?
i'm...


August 16, 2012

In celebration of what would have been Julia's 100th birthday, PBS released a celebratory remix, featuring her from her earliest days on television onwards.

Like their