Tia Keenan

Tia Keenan is a New York City-based cook, cheese specialist and writer. She is the author of The Art of the Cheese Plate: Pairings, Recipes, Style, Attitude (Rizzoli, 2016) and writes the "Cheese Wisely" column for the Wall Street Journal. She oversaw the cheese program for The Modern, at the Museum of Modern Art, and pioneered the "cheese bar" concept by opening New York City's first cheese bar in 2007. Over her career Keenan has worked on a broad range of creative, food-based projects, from...See more

Tia Keenan is a New York City-based cook, cheese specialist and writer. She is the author of The Art of the Cheese Plate: Pairings, Recipes, Style, Attitude (Rizzoli, 2016) and writes the "Cheese Wisely" column for the Wall Street Journal. She oversaw the cheese program for The Modern, at the Museum of Modern Art, and pioneered the "cheese bar" concept by opening New York City's first cheese bar in 2007. Over her career Keenan has worked on a broad range of creative, food-based projects, from concept development for Walt Disney and Bien Cuit Bakery, to restaurant and retail programs for Murray's Cheese. She lives in Queens, New York with her husband and her son. See less