Cheddar
Subtitle: a journey to the heart of America's most iconic cheese
By: Gordon Edgar
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781603585651
Subjects: Cheese; Cheddar cheese
Description: Author Gordon Edgar (Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge) is well equipped to take readers on a tour through the world of cheddar. For more than fifteen years he has worked as an iconoclastic cheesemonger in San Francisco, but his sharp talent for observation and social critique were honed long before then, in the world of 'zines, punk rock, and progressive politics. His fresh perspectives on such a seemingly common topic are as thought-provoking as they are entertaining.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mac and cheese, class war, and the many meanings of cheddar; title: The idea of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin idea; title: Of bandages and blocks; title: Oh, geez, what is cheddar anyway?; title: In search of the first cheese factory; title: Vermont is not Wisconsin; title: Eat my wookey hole; title: Curds and raines; title: Velveeta : A crowning achievement of American science; title: Boosting the cheese centennial; title: The cheddarpocalypse; title: cheddar-making or myth-making?; title: Mammoth cheese and the resurrection of cheddar; title: Saturday night's alright for...cheddar.