1. A stranger in his hometown
Vanness 's father is a Greek living in Istanbul, Turkey, and his mother is a native of Turkey. When he was young, he learned to distinguish spices from his grandfather who owned a spice shop, gradually became fascinated with food, and met his favorite girl, Sammi. At a family dinner, Sammy asks Vanessa what spices taste best when making meatballs. Vanessa said, I tell you, but you have to do a dance for me. So, Vanessa trades cinnamon for a dance from Sammi. He held his small cheeks and watched the beautiful and lovely Sammi dance gracefully, imagining that he could be with her every day in the future.
The good times did not last long. In 1959, Greece and Turkey fell into conflict, and Turkey began to expel the Greeks. Little Vanessa had to follow her parents to bid farewell to her grandfather and leave Greece. At the train station, Sammy came to see him off and said to him, I'll see you soon, you cook me a dish, and I'll dance you a dance.
When I came to Vanness in Greece, I was very uncomfortable with the life here. He has no intention of going to school and always thinks about Sammi. Once, he received a postcard from Sammy, saying that she and Vanessa's grandfather were coming to see him in Greece in a few days, and asked him to prepare a meal and wait for her. The ecstatic Vanness sneaks into the kitchen every night, and concentrates on learning to cook by himself. The night before Sammy was coming, he finally made the first dish of his life and placed it on the table waiting for Sammy. However, the next day, Grandpa and Sammi did not come. Since then, she has not come. Vanness, who was waiting so hard, had to hide in the kitchen every day to cook. He brought the prepared dishes to the girls at school, watched them eat, and imagined that they were Sammi. Forbidden by his parents, he even went to the houses of prostitutes and worked as a free cook for them, just to be able to cook for himself.
The dishes became the only link between him and Sammi. Crossing the line of defense of politics, religion and race, he used a variety of delicious food to express his longing for Sammi and his hometown. But where is his hometown? In Turkey, he was expelled when he didn't understand politics; in Greece, the locals treated him as a foreigner. Wherever he is, he is a stranger in his hometown. What he didn't know was that at this time, Sammi had become someone else's bride, and it was impossible to see him again.
2. People who read maps and people
who Vanness's uncle is about to get married. For him, who is over fifty years old and drives a ship all day long, this should be a good home. However, Vanness thinks that his aunt is not worthy of his uncle, and when teaching his aunt to cook the engagement dish, he deliberately adds the wrong spices, which causes the marriage to fall through. Vanness's uncle told him that he was old and wanted to have a home, and he didn't want to wander anymore. From very early on, he looked in the mirror, alone.
He said that there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who look at maps and those who look in mirrors, those who look at maps are going to go far, and those who look in mirrors are going home.
But where is home? Their family has long since lost their entire home. My uncle sailed on the sea all year round and traveled around the world, but he had nowhere to live. My grandfather is in Turkey, and he and his parents are in Greece. In this way, a complete home was dismembered to pieces. Almost every year, my grandfather would always send a letter saying that he would come to see them, but every time he came to the end, he never came.
Vanness's father said that he didn't want to come at all. Istanbul is the most beautiful city in the world, and no one could bear to leave there, even for a while, no one could bear to leave. But both my father and Vanessa knew that it wasn't that Grandpa didn't want to come, but that he couldn't come at all. He was old and sickly, and the distance between Turkey and Greece was such a long and long distance that he was afraid, he was worried, that he could not bear such a huge reunion and separation.
Grandpa once said that everything about astronomy is included in the food. In every cuisine, there is a kind of astronomy. Perhaps influenced by his grandfather's words, Van Ness became a professor of astronomy at the university when he was middle-aged. At this time, he gradually understood the meaning of Grandpa's words: every kind of food is a separate universe. As long as you don't forget the food in your hometown and the stories hidden in the spices, no matter where you are, no matter how far away you are, you will never be truly homeless.
3. The party for farewell The
original Vanness is now a middle-aged man with gray temples. Now, my grandfather is finally here. What he didn't expect was that his grandfather became seriously ill as soon as he got off the plane and was sent to the hospital. Thirty or forty years have passed. Many relatives at that time are gone, and many of the scenery at that time have been dilapidated. It took me thirty or forty years to see my grandfather, and it was the last time. On his grandfather's sick bed, he held his wrinkled hand and said in tears, "Grandpa, I'm Vanessa, I'm here." He knew that this time, as soon as they met, they were destined to become Yongjue.
At his grandfather's funeral, he accidentally meets his childhood sweetheart, Sammi. The two eyes met, as if there were a thousand words, but nothing to say. Sammi now has a daughter with his young playmate, the military doctor, and is divorced. Sammi asked her why she didn't go back to Turkey for so many years. Vanness said he was afraid of leaving again, just like his grandfather, he was afraid he would not be able to bear it.
At a birthday party for Sammi's daughter, he made a cake himself. Sammi says dessert is the end of every fairy tale. He knew that he and her were all over. The moment he sent Sammi away from the train station, he called to her from behind: Sammi, don't look back, just keep going forward. In this way, it was the last time we met again after thirty or forty years. And when her daughter turned around, she smiled back at him, just like Sammy's bright smile when she sent him away. He knew that this smile had paid off everything for Sammy.
After so many years of anticipation, he met the two most important people in his life: Grandpa and Sammi. However, Grandpa passed away in a blink of an eye, and Sammi, who had remarried her husband, left him again.
In order to pay off all these longings and debts, he went to the Bosphorus as a visiting professor in the Department of Astronomy. Here, he once again got close to his childhood hometown. Grandpa's spice shop has long been deserted, and the sky is full of dust. He walked in slowly, leaning over to pick up the aged spices scattered on the floor. In this spice city full of memories, he blended the various remnants he had picked up, blew them up gently, and scattered them into a beautiful cosmic image. Food and astronomy have finally merged into one, and the homeless have finally found their spiritual home.
Through the palm of memory, all that was lost and not gained is found again.
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