Chip Brantley is the author of The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot.
The cofounder of Cookthink.com, Chip is a former food writer for the San Francisco Examiner and features writer for the Albany Times Union. He has contributed to many other publications, including Slate, Gourmet, the Boston Globe, the Oxford American, and Gastronomica.
Chip also spent several years as the cheese maker at Westfield Farm, an award-winning artisan cheese company in central Massachusetts. Before his career in cheese, he worked as the editorial producer for Movieline.com and as the director of TV development at Mike Newell's Dogstar Films.
Currently a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of Alabama, Chip lives with his wife, Elizabeth Hughey, and their son in Birmingham.
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