Anne-Marie Pietersma is a Certified Cheese Professional and rom-com lover with a very specific area of expertise: pairing cheese with almost anything. In the case of her debut book, I'll Have What Cheese Having: A Book of Cheese Pairings Inspired by Romantic Comedies, she matches iconic romantic comedies to the cheeses that share their mood, visual details, and emotional identity.

Pietersma's writing on food and culture appears online in her newsletter, and printed in Culture Magazine. She is as bi-coastal as her schedule allows, judging the LA International Dairy Competition in California, and teaching classes at Murray’s Cheese in NYC. Her independent tastings double as storytelling workshops, a habit that comes with being an actor and playwright. Ask her to describe a cheese, and she will give you its character arc in addition to tasting notes.

She is also the founder of Trust Your Taste, a sensory storytelling brand spanning food, fragrance, an upcoming snail mail club, and events: evidence that her interest in flavor and story reaches well past the cheese board. I'll Have What Cheese Having is where two of her specific loves meet: cheese, and the movies that make people believe in romance again.

She lives in Brooklyn, where she consistently buys vintage furniture at auction before measuring if it will fit in her apartment.