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08.26: Michael Paterniti
2013-07-10 23:33:40| Powells Books Events Calendar
In the fall of 1991, Michael Paterniti encountered a rare Spanish queso reputed to be the finest and most expensive in the world. Made from an ancient family recipe in the medieval Castilian village of Guzmán, the cheese carried its own legend: if you ate it, some said, you might recover long-lost memories. Flash forward 10 years, when Paterniti has finally found his way to that tiny hilltop village to meet the famous cheesemaker himself, a magnetic, heartbroken genius named Ambrosio. What Paterniti discovers in Guzmán is nothing like the idyllic food fable he has imagined. Instead, he wanders into — and eventually becomes implicated in — the heart of an unfolding mystery in which a village begins to spill its long-held secrets and nothing is quite what it seems. A transporting work of literary nonfiction, Paterniti's The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese (Dial Press) is a moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal.
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