Patrick McGuigan is a freelance food journalist and cheese writer, who has travelled from the Swiss Alps to the hipster cheese bars of New York to interview the world's best cheesemakers, maturers and cheesemongers. A senior judge at the World Cheese Awards and the co-founder of the British Cheese Weekender festival, Patrick also teaches Academy of Cheese courses via the Online Cheese School. His first book, The Philosophy of Cheese, was published by The British Library in 2020.