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Lauren Kouffman is an editorial intern at culture: the word on cheese and a first year MLA Gastronomy student at Boston University. Situating herself at the crossroads of food, media and technology, Lauren loves to explore the world - online and off - with a writer's heart and a foodie's stomach. Lauren spends her free time collecting more cookbooks than she has space for, and never turning down an invitation for wine and cheese night!

Blog Posts

Community Culture
March 28, 2013

Despite the fact that my studio kitchen is barely large enough to turn around in, it's always difficult for me to say no to a shiny new kitchen toy. I also happen to have a talent for rationalizing the purchase of cool specialty equipment in the name of feeding myself; thus, the introduction of a beautiful pasta machine to my collection of gadgets, and...

Community Culture
March 20, 2013

As our Winter Cheese Plate adventure draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect on the incredible diversity that’s been highlighted by our amazing bloggers.

From a romantic cheese picnic for two , to a...

Community Culture
March 06, 2013

We’ve arrived at the fifth and final week of our Winter Cheese Plate Party! So far you’ve heard from a few new voices in the culture community about our ...

Community Culture
February 27, 2013

As an indiscriminate media zealot and avid snack lover, nothing pleases me more than the mash-up of food and pop culture. For this week’s Tasting Tuesday at culture, I thought it would be fun to play director, imagining some of this year’s Oscar...

Community Culture
February 26, 2013

We've arrived at the fourth installment of our Winter Cheese Plate Winners! Here's where you'll find five weeks of our winning foodie bloggers, sharing their personal spins on our ...

Community Culture
February 20, 2013

Welcome to the third installment of our Winter Cheese Plate Winners! Here’s where you’ll find five weeks of our winning foodie bloggers, sharing their personal spins on our...

Community Culture
February 12, 2013

Welcome to the second installment of our Winter Cheese Plate Winners! Here’s where you’ll find five weeks of our winning foodie bloggers, sharing their personal spins on our Winter 2012...

Community Culture
February 06, 2013

And so it begins: five weeks of our winning foodie bloggers, sharing their personal spins on our Winter 2012 Cheese Plate! Our inaugural guest post comes from pastry chef-turned...

Community Culture
January 30, 2013

This may not come as news to many of you, but even though the holidays are over… it’s still winter. Days are short, temperatures (here in Boston, anyway) are miserably cold, and it feels like everything in the CSA box is a root vegetable. On the other hand, sometimes all it takes to get you out of that mid-winter rut is a little fiesta...

Community Culture
January 15, 2013

We know you’ve all been drooling over our Winter Cheese Plate… now we’re giving you the chance to taste it yourself!


WIN A CHEESE PLATE

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