Dona Flor e seus dais maridos

Dear Friend Jorge Amado, The fact of the matter is that I do not really have a recipe for the corn cake I bake. Dona Alda, the wife of Mr. Renato of the Museum, told me how to do it, and in that way I learned, racking my brains until I got it right. (Was it not by loving that I learned to love? Was it not by living that I learned to live?)