CHEESESLAVE

CHEESESLAVE written by Ann Marie Michaels, is a blog about traditional and slow food, sustainable agriculture, and food politics.

Ann Marie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. You can find her at the Saturday morning Santa Monica farmer’s market eating oysters on the half shell for breakfast, or in her backyard growing organic heirloom tomatoes and Meyer lemons. Or at LAX, smuggling a suitcase full of raw milk cheese and foie gras from Paris (sshhhh don’t tell anyone).

Ann Marie began her career in interactive media in 1995 in Silicon Valley and has worked at some of the top advertising agencies and consulting firms including CKS Interactive, Razorfish, Deutsch and Foote, Cone & Belding. Past clients include: Apple Computer, Levi’s, Target, Toys “R” Us, Clinique, AT&T, Warner Bros., Disney, Hallmark, Nestle, Turner Networks, Coors, E*TRADE, Quaker, Sony, Fox, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Creative Artists Agency, and Old Navy.

Combining her experience in digital media and advertising with her passion for slow and traditional food, Ann Marie founded Real Food Media in 2008. Real Food Media is the first and only blog network devoted to the slow/traditional food movement.

Ann Marie holds a B.S. in Radio/Television/Film, with a specialization in New Media from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Advanced Communications Technology Lab (ACTLab). She is a co-chapter leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation in Los Angeles, California. She is also the author of the cookbook, Cooking to Hook Up: The Bachelor’s Date-Night Cookbook (Globe-Pequot, 2004).