The Telling Room: A Tale Of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, And The World's Greatest Piece Of Cheese (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Foodies and fans of travel literature do not want to miss this book. It’s a tale of cheese made by hand in a Spanish village. As you will read you will be there in Spain, in “the telling room” listening to the stories told by Ambrosio while eating chorizo, cheese and drinking copious quantities of homemade wine. But this book is about much more than “the world’s greatest cheese”. There is also the love, revenge and betrayal promised by the subtitle! Truly, the author has done something special here—weaving the story of an individual in between his own story and the story of Spain itself. It’s a book more than a decade in the making, one that tells of a struggle between history, perception and reality. In the end it isn’t quite the book you thought it would be, but it is still the book you want. It’s a fascinating tale of storytelling that is well told. --BW The Telling Room was a fun and enchanting tale of the author's love affair with a small village in Spain and the maker of the greatest piece of cheese. Starting out in a small deli Michigan, where the author encounters a round of cheese that he can not afford to even nibble on, and a hint of a story of the greatest cheesemaker in the world. Several years later as a journalist, the author finds himself in Spain and makes a point to visit the small village of Guzman and try to meet this cheesemaker, Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras. It took some searching but finally Michael and his friend and translator, Carlos, were able to sit down with Ambrosio in his Telling Room and begin the story that would take ten long years to tell. The tale is one of an old family recipe revived, friendships, mysticism, tradition, betrayal, revenge, and of course, cheese and wine. I really enjoyed this book and traveling time and again with the author to this small piece of the world. The book is full of footnotes that add fun and depth to the story instead of detracting from it as footnotes usually do. I too fell in love with Ambrosio, his ideals and way of life and felt anger at the betrayal that stole his beloved cheese. One of the best and most fun works of non-fiction I have ever read. Well done!
What do You think about The Telling Room: A Tale Of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, And The World's Greatest Piece Of Cheese (2013)?
This is actually currently on my tablet which has gone away to be fixed....
—CassadyBassett
for book club....fun but too many footnotes
—shastann
Would have benefited from a lot of editing
—Livelovelyrics
