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Years later, Syd would read somewhere that grief was just love with nowhere to go – but for her dad, his grief and love was unknowingly going to Syd with every serving of pancakes or catfish or mac and cheese. Much of it was sad, but not entirely. It was, after all, still love. And that form of love sustained and nurtured Syd, helped her grow into her gift and into a person who was keenly attuned to the people who fed her.
On her sixth birthday, Sydney Adamu suddenly develops the ability to taste the emotions of a person through the food they cook.