VIRAL SENSATION WITH A MEDIA FOLLOWING: Across @ThatCheesePlate, @CheesebyNumbers, and her personal account, Marissa Mullen has 300K followers who are passionate about cheese plates. Many of her posts have gone viral, and she has been featured on major media outlets like The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Live with Kelly + Ryan, Refinery29, Vox, and Food & Wine, among others.

BRAND PARTNERSHIPS: Mullen frequently collaborates with established food brands like Whole Foods, Brooklyn Slate, Curd Box, and Winc.

BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED, FULL-COLOR, WITH PHOTOS THROUGHOUT: The book features gorgeous, full-color images—both Marissa’s original photography and illustrated “maps” for each cheese plate. These images illustrate each step in the Cheese by Numbers method to teach readers to recreate these plates.

SELF-CARE ANGLE: Marissa is passionate about the idea that crafting these cheese plates are a form of self-care—there’s a meditative quality to putting them together, and they also spark joy among friends and family. Self-care is a rapidly growing $10 billion+ industry, and there’s a huge appetite in this space, especially among millennials, for relaxing creative pursuits.

Marissa Mullen is a Brooklyn-based creative director, content creator, photographer, and food stylist. She is the founder of That Cheese Plate, a community for cheese lovers from across the globe, and Cheese By Numbers, the method behind crafting the perfect cheese plate. Featured on The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Live with Kelly + Ryan, Refinery29, Vox, and Food & Wine, among many others, Marissa is dedicated to bringing people together through creativity, self-expression, and entertainment.

Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY

Author Hometown: Fairfield, CT