A modo Suo English Version

A modo Suo

Arturo cooks, writes, observes. He has a beard that changes colour, two earrings he considers punctuation marks, and a certain difficulty taking things seriously precisely when they become important.

His restaurant welcomes solitary customers, women who arrive when he least expects them, publishers, critics, writers, photographers, and men who have stopped sharing their meals with anyone. Arturo listens to them, cooks for them, sometimes falls in love with them. Then he returns to the stove.

For him, a recipe is an attempt, a book is another way of bringing order to disorder, and a relationship never quite reaches the right cooking point. There are dishes to make again, people to let go, tables to set once more, and things that seem to be over but somehow remain.

These stories follow Arturo between the kitchen and the page, between the desire to do things well and the awareness that things rarely turn out as expected.

Because cooking, writing and living have something in common: you have to start with what you have and see what happens.