| Description |
xiii, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-224) and index. |
| Summary |
The highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. |
| Contents |
Cheese dreams, cheese nightmares -- Becoming a cheesemonger -- Grass, farmland, and where my cheese love story begins -- Herd animals, farmers, foodies, and co-op workers -- The milk of human neurosis -- Cheese culture, punk subculture, and Reagan cheese -- Rennet, what's in it? -- Salt in the wounds -- Mold, secondary cultures, and cheese with stuff in it -- None of us is getting any younger, especially not the cheese -- What did I buy into? -- Terroir, trucking, and knowing your place -- Withstanding the cuts of a thousand cheese knives -- The salesman smiled, the salesman lied -- It's not what we eat, it's that we eat. |
| Subject |
Edgar, Gordon.
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Cheese industry -- United States -- Biography.
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Cheesemaking -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781603582377 paperback |
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1603582371 paperback |
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