Gordon Edgar

Gordon Edgar is a San Francisco-based writer whose political cheese memoir "Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge" will be published by Chelsea Green in March 2010

Edgar has been the cheesemonger for Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San Francisco, California since 1994. Rainbow is San Francisco's biggest independent grocery store and the country's largest retail worker co-op. Edgar has been a panelist speaking at numerous cheese events over the last decade, served as an aesthetic judge at national cheese competitions, and helped develop the educational programming at the annual Sonoma Valley Cheese Conference. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Artisan Cheese Guild. Edgar's writing has been published by HipMama.com, Clamor Magazine, The Anderson Valley Advertiser, MaximumRocknRoll and Zine World. He has also had a blog since 2002 which now resides at www.gordonzola.net.