Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes

This book is not a treatise, it is not culinary and, more than for sad women, it seems written for happy, overjoyed women. Héctor Abad, one of the main voices of Colombian literature, deals with feminine psychology with a subtle humor, and proposes what he himself calls "sudden antidotes for persistent melancholy". Recipes to seduce, advice against the evil of love or singleness, remedies against sadness ... "Who has told you that you are forbidden?" Do not let them prescribe you joy, like someone who prescribes a season of antibiotics. treat your sadness as a perversion, or at best as a disease, you are lost: besides being sad you will feel guilty, and you are not to blame for being sad. "