Four sister cooks who gain fame by feeding rich and poor; a curious young visitor; a noble mansion that seems abandoned; a spot in the European Mediterranean, with a beach and a river, where members of an ancient lineage and families without a homeland live side by side. With these components, The Gourmet Sisters sees Vicente Molina Foix enter a world that blends the ghosts of memory and the secrets of the pantries: artisan kitchens and avant-garde dishes where the tried and tested recipes of stories provide the seasoning to the art of fiction. A historical novel in its own way, this multifaceted, sensual and mysterious book uses womens' stories to tell us about a vanished country and a scattered family who uses food to invent the ingredients for their fantasies. The Gourmet Sisters focuses its narrative on the oral tradition.