VANILLA SALT

Àlex is a brilliant Catalan chef, but he struggles to fill his restaurant because of his gruff, eccentric personality and his refusa l to use ingredients that trace their culinary origins to America, such as potatoes and tomatoes. When he meets the young, enthusias tic and beautiful Canadian Annette, he finds his ideas and narrow-minded outlook challenged, and discovers that they are both concea ling painful pasts.