The Tiny Blue House by R.A. Padmos

Author:R.A. Padmos [Padmos, R.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
Published: 2016-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Molly walked next to Chiara through the village in the direction of Betty and Michaela’s cottage. “How did you end up here?”

“When she suddenly wasn’t there anymore, I saw no reason to continue the restaurant that had been so much about us being together, sharing a life.” Chiara paused for a moment. “I wanted to continue. I even gave it a try, but the heart was ripped out of the place that we both had created and after a few months I realized that I was destroying the restaurant. I couldn’t do that.”

“I would have felt the same.”

“I sold the restaurant to someone I respect and trust. Jill and Bert, the owners of the Seatown hotel and old friends of mine, offered me a free room to…well, mourn. I insisted I would help in the restaurant. I had to cook for people or else I would go mad.” Chiara smiled. “For months on end life seemed to stop for me, but I always cooked. Even when I thought all originality had died in me, I still knew how to make all the old recipes. My hands simply knew what to do when my mind didn’t.”

“You’re finding your creativity as a cook again, aren’t you?” Molly asked.

Chiara nodded. “I simply have to make something that hadn’t been there before in quite the same way. I know, cooking is an endless variation on a few themes, but so is composing, writing, painting.”

“I want to cook food that makes people say, ‘I could do that myself. I want to do that myself. It makes me happy eating this and it doesn’t feel like it’s out of my reach.’” Molly looked at Chiara. “You understand what I’m trying to say, am I right?”

Chiara chuckled. “You ate my food yesterday. Does that answer your question?”

“A great part of it, yes.”

“But?”

“Your cooking is more complicated than that. I don’t mean what you cook is forbiddingly complicated, though I still have to find out how you did that with the bitterness smack in the middle of the sweet foam, but it is also rich and layered.” Molly had to search for the right words. “What you did could have turned out messy, pretentious, just a lot of noise and no real music. Your talent and skill made it into what I consider a whole new level of looking at food.”

“Anything good is layered by necessity. You’re a cook yourself and you have probably spent some time in the kitchen of Marguerite Dubois, so you know how much knowledge, experience and work it takes to present a perfect piece of fish that has been perfectly poached.”

“For a moment I thought you were making an ironic statement when the cod was placed in front of me, but one bite and I understood… I knew my purpose of being in a place like Seatown.” Molly hesitated before she continued. “Purpose is the wrong word. Perhaps it’s better to say that after a journey of almost two years I feel I have actually arrived where I belong.

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