Sam and Elena tease him gently about his obsession with food: how he'll dig through the whole grocery store to find five perfect tomatoes, how he will always choose fresh ingredients over canned, or whole spices over ground, how he spends hours in secondhand stores looking though cookbooks for some new set of tastes. "In another life you must have been a chef," Elena says, her eyes closing in pleasure as she tastes his latest masterpiece. The memories come back to him one day, leaving him clutching at his gut, to tell him something different: in another life he starved.