Tune in to [1] Edible Radio for an entertaining interview with Gordon “Zola” Edgar, author of [2] Cheesemonger; Life on the Wedge (one of the wittiest titles in our catalog).

In this interview Gordon tells Kate Manchester a brief version of his cheese-y story, how his life as a punk rock activist blended smoothly into a job at the local [3] worker-owned cooperative grocery store, [4] Rainbow Grocery. He tells how he first fell in love with an alpine cheese–a delightfully aged [5] Gruyere, and since that moment, has been learning the wheys of the curds and spreading the cheese gospel.

Edgar gives Vermont a shout-out in this interview (this lovely state, “with fewer people than the city I grew up in!” he quips), and spends a few minutes talking about the innovative community cheese caves up in the Northeast Kingdom. In coordination with Cabot Creamery, [6] Jasper Hill Farm runs a massive [7] cheese aging facility, allowing farmers to sell their milk and reap the benefit of turning it into a value-added product, without the immense outlays of capital it would take an individual farmer to build such a facility.

For the full interview, go to [8] Edible Radio!