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Immortal Milk was picked for the June 2010 Indie Next List
and chapters appeared in Best Food Writing 2009 and 2011
and chapters appeared in Best Food Writing 2009 and 2011
"Travel writing, food writing, and intellectual obsession, such is the intriguing blend of elements to be savored in Eric LeMay’s one-of-a-kind Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese. The author journeys through France, Italy, and all over the US, tasting, sniffing, and endlessly cogitating the allure of a food that achieves its greatest flavors at points along the path where 'milk goes from its most lively and life-giving to its inevitable end as rot.' Ooh-la-lait!"
— Passport Magazine
"[T]oo fun and smart to put down .... The author is a consummate storyteller, offering readers a detailed account of every situation matched with pithy commentary. Part rhapsody, part comic rant, each chapter .... is a literary joy ride that is both informative and insightful, engaging readers through a unique appreciation for 'the sparks that fly between the enthusiast’s love and the expert’s knowledge' of cheese."
— Culture: The Word on Cheese
"Turn off the Food Channel, come out of your dark cave, cut off a chunk of Jura Erguel, settle into that comfy chair, pour yourself a glass of wine—get cozy!—and open a copy of Immortal Milk. For cheese has not only gone viral, but microbial, and you're a better person for it."
— Rob Kaufelt, author ofThe Murray's Cheese Handbook
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"There is an enthusiasm to Eric LeMay’s writing that is difficult to describe. His prose feels devoted. His thesis being more of a passionate disquisition than mere documentary. As it comes from a place that is bordering on the obsessive. That is unabashedly, shamelessly, in love with cheese."
— Umapagan Ampikaipakan, New Straits Times
"Love cheese? Crave good writing? Then you’ll savor these pages .... the most delectable morsels are what can be described only as LeMay’s odes to cheeses, which soar beyond the flavors .... A book for serious epicures."
— The Virginian-Pilot
"LeMay chronicles this whole romp with expertly crafted observations and self deprecating humor. Geeks will appreciate his detours into such issues as the meaning of 'cheesy' (as in campy), or how you can compare the experience of eating cheese to reading a novel by Danielle Steele. And while he insists that he and Chuck are just cheese 'enthusiasts' its clear that by the end of the book, they have transported themselves by sheer force of will into experts. Follow along and you'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll learn a lot about cheese."
— Tami Parr, the Pacific Northwest Cheese Project
"[A] delightful, screwball take on the world (read: cheese) that combines lucid fun-with-language and uniquely specific observation .... Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese celebrates exactly that: milk elevated to Royalty Everlasting. LeMay’s memoir is outstandingly cheesy ... as only a great cheese that ripens beautifully can be."
— Paulette Licitra, Alimentum: The Literature of Food
"When I found my mailbox stuffed with ... Immortal Milk, a book devoted to cheese and the adventures of a fellow cheese enthusiast, I gave a little squeak of joy .... This is just the kind of book one could happily leap into, preferably with a nice wedge of Cowgirl Creamery Red Hawk and a glass of Alsatian riesling at your elbow."
— Dana Velden, The Kitchen