On a rooftop in Cartagena, an obsolete android with no sense of taste cooks dinner for eleven stray cats — and takes notes on which dishes make them purr. His only human witness swears she can teach him what mango tastes like. Someone else is watching too.
Part 1 of 2 in The Recipe for What Cannot Be Tasted
El gato de una sola oreja rechazó el plato número tres. Fogón-12 anotó el resultado en su memoria: «Pescado con arroz de coco, versión C: abandonado tras dos bocados. Hipótesis: exceso de sal».
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