FINDING ELENA
And then she saw the books.
She gasped, her eyes widening and her hand covering her mouth.
Leather-bound volumes with gold-embossed titles: Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire, a culinary Bible. She knew the name.
Every chef did.
More treasures followed: Essentials of Italian Cooking, and tomes of French, Japanese, African, Latin American cuisine.
The collective knowledge of culinary masters from around the world. A lifetime of learning, pressed into the spines right before her eyes.
She felt her throat tighten so much that she was breathless for a moment.