THE CHEESE CURE

A wonderful book Cathy RentzenbrinkA soul lifting tale of finding a new life in a passion a glorious insight into the community of London s oldest food market an exploration of the senses the modern world forgets to celebrate taste touch smell and the most enjoyable and fascinating education on all things cheese A giant wheel of Comte a cheese full of delight a mosaic of flavour can sometimes become flat Despite all that s gone into making it and caring for it its complexity mysteriously vanishes its spark dies Cheesemongers know that That s why they regularly test the cheeses they insert a cheese iron deep into the wheel and extract a sample from its core Sometimes they can cure it and sometimes they can t A highly successful BBC and Guardian Journalist somehow Michael Finnerty s life had become flat His psychological cheese iron told him he needed to make a change and he becomes convinced his salvation lies in cheese Michael becomes an apprentice cheesemonger at Borough Market and is plunged into a world of intense physicality extraordinary knowledge and total geeky passion From learning the cheese s personal nighttime riders Castillon Frais needs to sit in its box underneath some waxed paper but its box needs to be kept in a plast