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Book Reviews of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
The Telling Room A Tale of Love Betrayal Revenge and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Author: Michael Paterniti
ISBN-13: 9780385337014
ISBN-10: 0385337019
Publication Date: 5/6/2014
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Dial Press
Book Type: Paperback
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sharrona avatar reviewed The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese on + 207 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Thoroughly enjoyable book -- a non-fiction account of stories, storytellers, storytelling, and listening. Oh yes, and a very special cheese. Beautifully written, with the most entertaining (though sometimes tangential) footnotes I've encountered for a long time. Ambrosio, the legendary, heroic, larger-than-life cheesemaker, dominates most of the book. He is such a compelling character that I did not want to read the latter sections the author gleaned from those who might contradict Ambrosio's stories and thus diminish him. But by the end of the book, I turned the last page almost expecting to see another chapter, or even a footnote, containing that single remaining hoped-for event.
ClareS avatar reviewed The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese on + 87 more book reviews
Interesting characters. I learned a lot about culture and food in Spain.