Michael Finnerty

The Cheese Cure (eBook, ePUB)

How Comté and Camembert Fed My Soul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A wonderful book.' Cathy Rentzenbrink

'A remarkable tale' The Spectator

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 plastic sheath, Comté sits unwrapped in a cool cupboard, and has a quick saline bath before bed - to learning intricate ways to wrap their different shapes; from being able to taste nuances between the cheeses, to slicing fingers, bruising toes, getting allergic reactions, and the simple dog-tiredness of being on your feet from the crack of dawn till night, Michael's new job is more demanding than he could ever have imagined - and he loves it. Then when Borough Market is subjected to a terrifying attack, Michael realises through cheese, he has found something even more powerful - community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008749460
• Artikelnr.: 73166288

Autorenporträt

Michael Finnerty is a London-based cheesemonger, writer and journalist. He spent 15 years at the BBC and the Guardian - several of them reporting the world for the BBC World Service - before becoming a breakfast radio presenter for CBC in Montreal. His transition to cheesemonger was the result of a life-changing sabbatical at Borough Market, prompting him to hang up the microphone and don an apron. He believes that artisan cheeses are so much a product of human history and ingenuity, terroir and alchemy, art and science, they become imbued with a living spirit.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Borough Market
1. The Stage
2. A Gateway
3. Mrs Kirkham’s
4. Carotting the Comté
Part II: Life Before Cheese
5. The Presenter’s Tale
6. 1924 versus 2019
7. Raclette for One
8. The Munster Mash
9. What Else Can a Radio Presenter Do?
10. The Ottolenghi Audition
11. Picking Myself Up
12. The Answer Lies in Borough Market
Part III: Apprenticeship
13. The Cheese Talk
14. East Dulwich and the Cheesemonger Avengers
15. First Shift
16. Did You Just Lick Your Fingers?
17. A Brief Introduction to the Art of the Squeegee
18. No Maure Like This, Please
19. Knackered
20. Like French Kissing a Sheep
21. ‘I think we should move into the fridge’
22. The Morning After
23. A Clean Slate
24. Michael, What Have You Done?
25. Christmas Eve
26. A Cheesesome Threesome
Part IV: Bi-Continental
27. Back to the Microphone
28. Cheese in a Time of Corona
29. Decision Time
Part V: Cheesemonger’s Choice
30. Changes
31. We Close at 5
32. New Cheese on the Block
33. Tier Four
34. Good Friday
35. Tying the Knot
36. Cheese Daemons
Acknowledgements