On the first day, my mother-in-law smiled and humiliated me: “In this house you will eat the leftovers”; I didn’t raise my voice, I just obeyed every word until she had to cook alone for the whole family, and then everyone understood that the black notebook hid something much darker.

or serve the main course before them. That is why I thought it proper for you, as the guardian of tradition, to prepare everything yourself.”

Her lips trembled with sudden fear.

“Are you completely crazy?” she hissed. “There are more than twenty people out there!”

“That is precisely why it would be unforgivable for me to contaminate the protocol,” I continue reading …