Eatdrink #67 September/October 2017 "The Decade Issue"

The LOCAL Food & Drink Magazine September/October 2017 | 61
cheese course
The Telling Room
A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese
by Michael Paternitti
Anyone who loves cheese will have
no trouble being engrossed by this
book about a type of cheese made
from the fresh milk of Churra
sheep that graze on the Spanish
countryside. The love, betrayal and
revenge from the subtitle of The
Telling Room are added bonuses
Desserts are the epitome of
decadence. Even after filling your
stomach with a plentiful feast,
there is always room for something
sweet and rich (or how about
funny?) to end the meal. As a
stand-up comedian, Gaffigan may
not know how to cook much of
dessert
Food: A Love Story
by Jim Gaffigan
to the intriguing story about the
rise and fall of Paramo de Guzman
cheese. Paternitti travels to
Guzman many times to understand
how the location, the methods
and the people are key ingredients
to this cheese’s award-winning
flavours.
digestif
Mondo Cocktail: A Shaken and Stirred History
by Christine Sismondo
I have indulged in many books
about liquor, but Mondo Cocktail
is the right mix of erudite fact and
amusing anecdote about twelve
well-known cocktails to keep you
drunk on words as you sit down
after a meal with a full tummy and
anything outside of a microwave,
but that does not make his opinions
in Food: A Love Story any less
reliable, given that his strengths
are stuffing his face and leaving you
with the sweet thrill of laughing out
loud on nearly every page.
a stiff drink. With tangents about
the characters who concocted them
and the history of the ingredients
involved in making them, this book
will entertain you way more than
a bartender guide about martinis,
margaritas, and the like.
DARIN COOK is a freelance writer who lives and works in Chatham.
Having lived in South Korea for a time, he now dearly misses the daily
consumption of kimchi.
A “Decade Issue” Flashback
After he fortuitously came across an early issue of Eatdrink, an ambitious
young bookseller who said he could write approached me with an
intriguing proposal. Wouldn’t the magazine benefit from reviews of
books that explore the culinary world? Not cookbooks per se, although
maybe they would have recipes too, but stories and writing about food,
drink and the issues that surround them. Yes, I responded, that is a
great idea (and wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of my decisions turned
out so well). Darin Cook submitted a review of The Year of Eating
Dangerously for Eatdrink Issue #5, and we have not published another
copy since that didn’t include his byline in it. Thanks Darin!
— Chris McDonell, Publisher