An amazing culinary thriller by one of the brightest authors of modern Argentina, a worthy rival to Federico Andahazi. This is exactly what, according to critics, “Perfumer” could have turned out to be if Patrick Suskind lived in South America and was interested not in ethereal smells, but in haute cuisine. “Caesar Lombroso was seven months old when he first tasted human flesh” - so this book begins. However, the story it tells begins much earlier, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when twin brothers Luciano and Ludovico Cagliostro, exchanging the azure landscapes of the Mediterranean for the harsh coast of the South Atlantic, opened the legendary restaurant Almacen Buenos Aires - and wrote not the less legendary “South Sea Cookbook”...