Living in the city of Sacramento, Garrett McCord works as a food writer and recipe developer. His popular food blog, Vanilla Garlic, looks at how life and food intertwine and has been drawing in readers since 2006. His writing has appeared publications such as The Huffington Post, Gourmet Live, Epi-Log, Culture: the word on cheese, Cheese Connoisseur, Sacramento News and Review, and many other newsprint and internet medias. He holds a master's in English Composition from California State University, Sacramento, where he studied the rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement. He also adores a good wedge of cheese like Kokos or Cheshire.