CHEDDAR: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF AMERICA’ S MOST ICONIC CHEESE
Book ID/图书代码： 03008015B82145
English Summary/英文概要： And what it can tell us about our history, cultural identity, and food politics
One of the oldest, most ubiquitous, and beloved cheeses in the world, the history of cheddar is a fascinating one. Over the years it has been transformed, from a painstakingly handmade wheel to a rindless, mass-produced block, to a liquefied and emulsified plastic mass untouched by human hands. The Henry Fordism of cheddar production in many ways anticipated the advent of industrial agriculture. They don’t call it “American Cheese” for nothing.
Cheddar is one man’s picaresque journey to find out what a familiar food can tell us about ourselves. Cheddar may be appreciated in almost all American homes, but the advocates of the traditional wheel versus the processed slice often have very different ideas about food. Since cheddar―with its diversity of manufacturing processes and tastes―is such a large umbrella, it is the perfect food through which to discuss many big food issues that face our society.
More than that, though, cheddar actually holds a key to understanding not only issues surrounding food politics, but also some of the ways we think of our cultural identity. Cheddar, and its offshoots, has something to tell us about this country: the way people rally to certain cheddars but not others; the way they extol or denounce the way others eat it; the role of the commodification of a once-artisan cheese and the effect that has on rural communities. The fact that cheddar is so common that it is often taken for granted means that examining it can lead us to the discovery of usually unspoken truths.
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 切达干酪并不只是食物那么简单，它可以告诉我们有关历史，文化身份和食物政治的一切。
切达干酪是世界上最古老、最普遍、最受人喜爱的奶酪之一，它的历史也相当有趣。切达干酪原来需要经过许多复杂的程序，手工制成车轮般大小，到后来批量生产制成无外皮的大块，时至今日，通过液化和乳化，并用塑料纸包装好，不能用手触碰。奶酪生产的亨利•福特主义在很多方面都预示了工业化农业的出现。切达干酪被称为“美国奶酪”也不是没有道理的。
《切达干酪》讲述了一个男人为了找寻这种常见食物到底能告诉我们什么而踏上的一段传奇旅途。可能每个美国家庭都喜欢切达干酪，但是传统的车轮形状与加工过的薄片状之间的对抗往往代表着人们对食物截然不同的理念。自从切达干酪有了各种不同的做法和口味，形成了许多支系，它就成为了人们现在探讨社会中食物问题的绝佳食物。
切达干酪不止代表着人们对食物政治的理解，也代表着我们对文化认同的想法。切达干酪以及其衍生品，告诉了我们关于美国的一些信息：人们喜爱某一种奶酪而不是其他种类的方式；人们赞美或谴责他人享用奶酪方法的方式；工匠制作奶酪的商品化角色以及其在农村社区中的影响力。切达干酪太过普遍以至于人们总想当然地以为对其的审视可以帮助我们发现一些未曾发现的事实。
作者戈登•埃德加（《奶酪商：楔上生活》作者）做好充分的准备要带读者走入切达干酪的世界。过去的15年间，戈登都是旧金山以为不遵循常规的奶酪商，在充满杂志、庞克和政治的世界中，其敏锐的观察力和社会评判力早就被磨砺出来了。他对切达干酪如此稀疏平常的事物能发表出这么发人深思的看法令人意想不到。(XAT)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 戈登•埃德加喜欢奶酪和工人合作社，并曾在许多全国性的奶酪比赛中担任评委，是加州乳酪公会的成员之一。戈登自2002年起开设博客：www.gordonzola.net.。戈登是《奶酪商：楔上生活》（切尔西•格林，2010年）的作者，他喜欢制作模具、奶酪特殊的味道、还有一天洗几百遍手的感觉。
Gordon Edgar loves cheese and worker-owned co-ops, and has been combining both of these infatuations as the cheese buyer for San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery Cooperative since 1994. Edgar has been a judge at numerous national cheese competitions, a board member for the California Artisan Cheese Guild, and has had a blog since 2002, which can be found at www.gordonzola.net. Edgar is the author of Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge (Chelsea Green 2010) and he enjoys mold in the right places, good cheese stink, and washing his hands upwards of one hundred times a day.
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