Four stories by Camilo José Cela Conde - accompanied by the culinary wisdom of Koldo Royo and the plastic art of Horacio Sapere that draw a suggestive world, full of humor and talent, presided over by the love of good cooking. In his conversations with his young interlocutor, the old cook Damià Sureda reveals his memories and tells stories evocative of a world exquisite and gone forever. In the accounts of Sureda, a discreet, educated and sensitive man, but above all an excellent cook, the story told is always intertwined with references to exquisite delicacies, for in the life of that great cook the passion for culinary art is inseparable from the vital experience. These tales by Camilo José Cela Conde pay tribute to a time and lifestyle that had not lost "the capacity to imagine," the exquisiteness and talent in the art of living, as evidenced by the haute cuisine of the time . These stories possess everything that is always present in the works of the author and that the classics demand of a literary story: elegance, brevity, ease and surprise. The imaginative drawings by Horacio Sapere and the culinary wisdom of Koldo Royo, which offers four menus that Damià Sureda could have prepared, complete this book, which will satisfy both lovers of good literature and lovers of good cooking.