"Perhaps miracles are all we poor mortals have to forestall untimely ends, but in fiction one hopes for something more plausible."
Screenwriter Elbling (Honey I Blew Up the Kids)—in disguise here as translator—offers up a clever tale, set in 16th-century Italy, of a peasant-turned-food-taster who survives by his wits, as well as by luck and a few twists of the incredible.
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