Cheesemonger Gordon "Gordonzola" Edgar, Illustrator Amos Goldbaum for culture: the word on cheese
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Illustration of a man thinking about a giant cheese

Ruminations: The World’s Largest Cheese


A cheesemonger recalls his pilgrimage to see the World’s Largest Cheese, a cheddar known as The Golden Giant

Illustration of men at a table for a cheese club

Ruminations: Come Together… with Cheese Clubs


One writer contemplates cheese clubs and the power of cheese as a social adhesive throughout history

Illustration of an outlaw with a gun toting a wedge of cheese in a sack

Ruminations: Tales of Good Cheese Gone Bad


The dark underbelly of the cheese world is exposed in these true tales of cheese crime

Illustration of cheese coming out of a Chinese takeout container

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?

Illustration of assorted life within a wedge of cheeses

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

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