Summary

This section starts with Sunny and Schiff in the kitchen. Schiff describes how his mother used to both overcook and oversalt everything. They talk about how salt used to be a sign of wealth as kings would sit under the salt so they could get more of it.

Sunny has been told that her mother had been writing a cookbook, but she cannot find any evidence of it. Sunny considers how she can cook well like her mother, but she wonders how much of that is genetics and how much of it is because she desperately wanted to be her mother’s daughter. When learning to cook, Sunny would read her mother’s recipes in French and translate them to the best of her abilities into English so she could follow them. As a child, she could read...