Liz Thorpe
The People's Cheese

Liz Thorpe knows cheese. In 2002, she was drawn out of corporate America to pursue her passion for cheese and has since become the countryโ€™s leading expert on the subject. She began her cheese career working behind the counter at Murrayโ€™s Cheese and later managed the famous shopโ€™s business as vice president. She has since become an author and regular speaker on a variety of subjects all about the topic of cheese. She has designed cheese menus for the countryโ€™s best restaurants, authored several books and now, as founder of The Peopleโ€™s Cheese, she teaches a broader market why cheese matters and how to make it a part of everyday life. Liz Thorpe is also the developer of a new concept of categorizing cheeses (known as the โ€œGateway modelโ€) which was detailed in her 2017 book,ย The Book of Cheese.

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