Chapter 51
Chapter 51: Crossroad (2)
There was no need to hesitate. The moment he was given the two choices, Jo Minjoon had already decided.
Alan and Joseph were chefs with completely opposite nature. Joseph was basically a chef that took a serious importance in orthodox cooking, and Alan was a chef that favored originality.
But it wasnt that one side was better or worse than the other. Only, he got the feeling that if he went to Joseph, he would consider more the skills than the recipe. So it was better to go to the side where he could save the recipes ability the most. Because Jo Minjoons best strength was the recipe designing of his system.
Jo Minjoon glanced at his sides. There were seven others that were leaving the kitchen along with him. Kaya, Anderson, Hugo, Carlos, etc. Chloe and Marco still remained in the kitchen.
The unexpected one was Anderson. Because Andersons cooking and character was uptight and tenacious. Orthodox cooking suited him more rather than a challenging one. Jo Minjoon thought like that.
When he looked at Anderson while thinking like that, he didnt stop his feet and frowned.
What? Why?
Nothing.
.What is it? Dont make me curious and just spill it.
Its really nothing much. I just found it interesting for you to have chosen Alan instead of Joseph.
And why is that interesting?
Just so. You usually cook orthodoxly.
Anderson smiled and replied.
If you can make an orthodox dish, you can make any.
Right. Good for you.
If you group together cooking level and experience, a dish beyond your expectations comes.
Honestly saying, he was envious. Jo Minjoon couldnt eat well made dishes since small because of his mothers sloppy cooking skills. Lee Hyeseons food was always salty or needed seasoning, and there were many times where the cooking wasnt done properly.
The problem Jo Minjoon had was right that. That his cooking didnt have a foundation. He looked in the internet or broadcast and copied the recipe of the dishes that seemed delicious. He wasnt limited by boundaries, and the result of that was that he became able to cook all kinds of dishes. However it couldnt be said that those dishes were his own. Because the food didnt have a color of Jo Minjoon, but was transparent and faint.
He was troubled by it but he couldnt do anything about it. The experience he had accumulated through his life, no, it was a problem of identity rather than experience.
It was at that moment. Alan looked at Jo Minjoon and said.
Minjoon. You have showed us your absolute taste before. Can you guess all of the ingredients for this risotto?
He didnt expect that. But he understood. Because to just let that ability go to waste in a broadcast was really not a good thing to do. Jo Minjoon ate a bite of the risotto and slowly opened his mouth.
The shallots and the onions are mixed on a 1-1 ratio. There is chopped garlic and the rice is arborio. Because it is an italian dish, it would be good to use italian rice. Its obvious but there is salt, and also dry white wine.
Jo Minjoon took the breath he was holding in. The participants were looking at him with an unknowable face. Jo Minjoon continued saying.
Theres parmegiano and reggiano cheese in it. Theres a little bit of pepper for seasoning, its obvious for olive oil, and the gravy is a clam gravy. This seems to be everything?
..Correct.
Alan looked at him with a face he couldnt get accustomed to. At times, there were outstanding epicureans that got all of the ingredients like Jo Minjoon. However, even they couldnt say those ingredients with absolute confidence. He differentiated the shallot and the onions? Those were ingredients you wouldnt know how to distinguish between them if you didnt know that they were included in the dish. Although if you ate knowing about it, it would be different. Werent normal people not able to discern between coke and soda?
So he could only be expectant to Jo Minjoons dish. A picture drawn by a colorblind and a normal person, and one drawn by someone who can see beyond colour could only be different. Basically, it was because the world they saw was different. And he thought that Jo Minjoons tasting world was different. He believed it to be like that. That if Jo Minjoon completed a flavor by his own, that flavor would be so luxurious and delicate as to not be able to compare it with anyone.
The participants sights became shameful. They knew that Jo Minjoon had a genius like sense of taste, but that sight was one which they just couldnt get accustomed to. Anderson frowned and tried to feel all of the ingredients Jo Minjoon had named. But it was difficult. The flavor that was mixed time and time lost almost all of its original shape.
How can he read all of those flavors like that?
Aside from talent, he was envious. He got the feeling that Jo Minjoons tasting world was more beautiful and happy world than theirs. But of course, in reality it was a bit different.
Okay. Now that the little event has ended we will go again with the main point. If you look at the ingredients Minjoon had named, there are no special ingredients in it. They are basic and normal ingredients. But that flavor is its a bit embarrassing to say it by myself, but I believe that you were satisfied by it.
The participants nodded. Alans risotto was so delicious it made them forget that they were in the middle of a mission. Alan continued speaking.
The only I want to give is this. That a risotto must be like one. Dont put in your excessive greed. And if you keep all of that, I believe that an excellent risotto would appear.
Risotto.
Kaya mumbled in a low voice. Her voice that seemed like she was angry was telling that she was nervous right now. Because it was her character to erect her spikes when she got nervous.
Even at first glance, Kaya was putting on a face that told that she didnt have much experience. And it was the same for Carlos. Their faces were so pale to the point that he felt bad for them.
Am I making the same face right now?
Jo Minjoon extended his hands and groped his face. But of course, there was no way he could know what kind of face he was putting right now. Alan opened his mouth.
One of you, and one of the participants that followed Joseph will disqualify. But of course, if your dishes are so perfect to the point I cant disqualify you, today could become a day with no disqualifiers. I would also like for that day to come. Now, lets move.
Taking into account that they had moved all the way to the garden, it was a really sloppy announcement of the mission. But of course, they would be shown through the screen like they were really nervous
Can you make risotto well?
At the unexpected voice, Jo Minjoon turned his head. It was Kaya. Jo Minjoon shook his head and said.
Honestly, its not my specialty. But I will have to work hard.
It seems like you dont have any specialties.
.Now that I think like that, it does seem like that.
At her words, he let out a laugh as if he was a little relieved from the nervousness. But he seemed to be embarrassed to have laughed like that and forced himself to not laugh and said.
Even so, your food is delicious.
.Was it?
Yes. It is.
Oh, wait. Lets stop. They will edit us once again.
After she said that, she glared at the cameraman that was following from behind. As the cameraman laughed without noise and with a flustered face, she said while grumbling.
You only get these things, right?
The cameraman didnt reply. She wasnt expecting an answer, so she turned back with a cold face to look at Jo Minjoon. The cameraman grinned. Can that little lady know that her attitude is more charming in the screen?
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