Did you know that cheese pairs perfectly with the Zodiac? Send this to your favorite Scorpio and read on to get inspiration for your next astrological cheese pairing of fall.
It’s 2:33 a.m. and Scorpio scurries into her dark kitchen to forage by the light of the fridge. It’s in her nature to dig deep, so she claws her way into the cold cavern searching for forgotten treasures. Her prize is a relic of feasts past: three slices of leftover pepperoni pizza encased in foil and a half-bottle of table wine. The cheese is cold and rubbery. The wine has oxidized and coats her tongue with tannins. But nothing tastes as sweet to a loner nightcrawler as a meal savored in solitude and steely silence.
Shadow side signature: Secretive, possessive, self-sabotaging
Midnight snack: Cold, leftover pizza + unfinished bottle of Two-Buck Chuck
Guilty pleasure pairing: Smoked mozzarella+ sun-dried tomato and basil Wheat Thins + Nebbiolo
Origin: Italy | Milk: Cow
Alana M. Miller
Sun: Aquarius | Moon: Aquarius | Rising: Libra Alana is an avid cook, party-organizer, and archivist who not-so-secretly wants to be a cheese librarian (aka cheesemonger). With her Sun and Moon in Aquarius, she delights in creating systems and then disrupting them – perhaps this is why she sought to merge the taxonomy of cheese and mythology of the zodiac. She has published writing in Broccoli Mag, The Billfold, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Inside/Out blog. She is also co-creator and co-host of the podcast The Soak. When not compiling her own cheese card catalog, Alana enjoys spending time with her beehives, cats, and queso-obsessed husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Janet Konz
Sun: Aries | Moon: Leo | Rising: Virgo Janet has been astrology-obsessed from an early age. She’s pretty sure her first search on AskJeeves.com was “aries + astrology.” Janet’s exuberance and eagerness to get into the fray is a testament to her Sun in Aries. She is an astrology-savant, musician, raconteur, esthetician, and hairdresser-extraordinaire, all of which give her ample opportunity to scrutinize everyone’s signs and make cosmic connections. She resides in Brooklyn with her vegan companion.
