My wife bought me Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge in paperback (thanks honey!). It’s about a political-activist punk rocker turned Cheesemonger at a grocery cooperative in the Bay Area. It’s a nice mix of personal memoir, cheese picking/eating guide, behind-the-scene stories about the cheese business, and humorous commentary about hippies, foodies, yuppies, hipsters, homos, and any other stereotype-able or non-stereotype-able person who might end up in the cheese department of an employee-owned food cooperative in hippy-ville. I’m about half-way through and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a fun, easy, read. Two thumbs up!
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