Las hermanas Gourmet

Four sisters cooks who became famous by feeding the rich and the poor; a curious young visitor; a noble house that seems abandoned; a place in the European Mediterranean, with a beach and a river, where members of an ancient lineage and families without a homeland coexist. With these components, Vicente Molina Foix with The Gourmet Sisters enters a territory that mixes the ghosts of memory and the secret of pantries: artisan kitchens and avant-garde dishes where art is seasoned with proven recipes from stories. of fiction.After his celebrated trilogy of "documentary novels" of the Hispanic twentieth century, which was based on the letter and the period document, in The Gourmet Sisters it is orality that focuses the narrative. Summoning great chefs of the imaginary (Oscar Wilde, Borges, Kafka, Tabucchi), Molina Foix builds a story full of stories, and peppers it with elements taken from the novel of intrigue and espionage. All this linked to the imperishable world of the fable (the parade of the almost impossible animals, the children in mixed race, the phantom float that takes us back to the past), which at the end of the book is invaded by the pressing presence of reality .A historical novel in its own way, this multifaceted, sensual and mysterious book starts from a tale of women to tell us about a disappeared country and a dispersed family that invents the raw material of their fantasies with food.