Mirroring Places

Chapter ⅄

Scene 15: Cooking Pot

It is a metal bowl, with a lid, a cylinder in the middle and an opening on its bases, probably to hold fire. It keeps the food warm. And so it does to the heart. She brought this object from her mother land, and it became a very important instrument for her in the new place where she arrived many years ago; and it still is so. It is around this object that she invites her friends to join her and share bits of her life. There she prepares recipes that remind her of her original land, and at the same time she cooks the ingredients for her new home.