{"product_id":"the-cheese-cure","title":"The Cheese Cure by Michael Finnerty (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat’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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen when Borough Market is subjected to a terrifying attack, Michael realises through cheese, he has found something even more powerful – community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somiibooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729482244439,"sku":"9780008749484","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9780008749484.jpg?v=1780857746","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/the-cheese-cure","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}