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Hooked on Cheese: An Interview with Writer Gordon Edgar


Cheese writer and monger Gordon “Gordonzola” Edgar has been at the helm of the California cheese scene since the 1990s. What’s he up to today, and how have things changed? Read his Daily Mail interview below.

Today’s Hooked on Cheese story is an interview with Gordon Edgar, a San Francisco-based cheese writer and the cheesemonger for the storied Rainbow Grocery Co-operative since 1994. Rainbow is San Francisco’s largest independent grocery store as well as the biggest retail worker co-op in the United States. Edgar currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Artisan Cheese Guild and helped develop the educational programming at the annual Sonoma Valley Cheese Conference. He is also a frequent cheese event panelist and has acted as an aesthetic judge at scores of national cheese competitions.
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Rebecca Haley-Park

Rebecca Haley-Park is culture's former editor and resident stinky cheese cheerleader. A native New Englander, she holds a BFA in creative writing from University of Maine at Farmington.

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