Author Talk with Eliot Stein of Custodians of Wonder

Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people preserving extraordinary cultural traditions. In his book Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, he introduces readers to figures such as a man safeguarding the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old soy sauce recipe, one of the only women alive who knows how to make the world's rarest pasta, and a family in India rumored to craft a mysterious metal mirror said to reveal your truest self.

The book also follows Scandinavia's last night watchman, a 27th-generation West African griot, Cuba's last official cigar factory "readers," the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge each year from the fabled Inca Road System, a British beekeeper who maintains the custom of "telling the bees" important news, and the official mailman of the only tree in the world with its own postal address — to which people from around the world have written in hopes of finding love.

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