BIO

I started writing about cheese with my blog, Pacific Northwest Cheese Project in the early 2000s, and I quickly became immersed in the rapidly expanding artisan cheese movement during that period. Later I got to do a variety of fun cheese-related activities including serving as a judge in both the American Cheese Society and American Dairy Goat Association cheese competitions. I was also president of the Oregon Cheese Guild. I’ve published two books about cheese - Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest (2009), Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History (2013) and more recently, a book about goats: Goats in America: A Cultural History (2025).