Chapter 1034 – [Winter of Growth]

Eden’s face became much brighter after she dealt with her other side with her kindness. According to her, the boy named Soon-wook seems to be doing well.

They fought once, but thanks to that, they are friendly now. Eden’s magnanimity and kind heart that he can become friends with such a child are very commendable.

Who does our Eden look like to be so kind? This part is definitely not me, so it probably resembles Zion, right?

To be honest, I’m really glad that part resembles Zion. If he was like me, Eden would have had a hard time raising him.

“Human beings have useless disputes, but I think it’s wonderful to make friends and learn something from them.”

“It’s good to see and experience each one of them and learn about them. But don’t trust only humans too much. There are good things about humans, but there are also many bad things.”

“I’m filtering that out on my own. Don’t worry, father.”

While I was resting at home, Eve was watching TV next to me and studying social studies. It is called artificial intelligence, but apart from that, human society needed a different learning.

In order to live in a human society, we also had to learn the irrationality of humans. Otherwise, human society cannot survive.

In the first place, since humans are irrational creatures, irrationality is unavoidable. Maybe if humans were rational creatures, they would be peaceful but flat.

“Isn’t that also human irrationality? But if it’s something like that, I want to try it too.”

“That?”

In the middle of the news, there was a story about the current Chinese economy on TV. It is news that China is suffering quite a bit due to rising inflation.

Since Chinese Chinese bastards invaded the Garden of Eden earlier, it seems that Shion is using her hands to stop it. In the meantime, the Chinese people will also suffer, but in the end it is their own responsibility.

So who wants to support such a government? At least in the Middle Ages, peasants rebelled against the lord when they were pushed to their limit.

Age and technology have advanced, but how come humans have degenerated? Where did all the grand corps who knew the guild gathered in Tiananmen Square go?

Oh right. Communist bastards shot and killed them all.

It looks like Murim, who was ruled by the Demonic Cult. In such a chaotic time, there must be a hero who will change the world.

“Maybe there will be an opportunity later. If I go then, I’ll really make up my mind and grind it all out.”

“I’ve seen previous records. My father’s records of killing tens of millions of people in China in another dimension.”

“What is Shion showing the child… So, how is it?”

“I thought it was worth dying for. China is not a democracy, but even so it is not without the rights and duties of the people. They have to be held accountable for their government’s self-indulgence.”

“That’s natural. If you leave a tyrant alone and the country goes bankrupt, it’s a natural death. If you’re really a tyrant, you have to stand up and change the king. It’s normal.”

Historically, such a thing is not uncommon. It’s just that modern society is relatively peaceful and it doesn’t happen.

I don’t know what will happen later. When the chinks cross the line, then I’ll pop them up with all sorts of means.

For example, talking to Keter and destroying all of China with abnormal weather. Even if it wasn’t that, even if it was just Yessto, the Chinese population could be cut in half by a volcanic eruption. Of course, there is no damage to Korea at all.

“I want to be in charge of the financial part.”

“Tell Shion about that. He probably has plans, so he’ll do what you can if he says he’ll do it.”

I don’t know if there’s anything to use it for, but I have a hunch that it’s possible when I see what these bastards are doing these days.

The presence and power of the Heavenly Demon that I saw when I went to hand out presents with Santa before. And the scum that proudly invades the territory of the Hanon family. Their arrogance was crossing the line.

Perhaps sooner or later he will reveal his ambition in some way. Not immediately tomorrow, but in the relatively near future.

Anyway, I prepared to run the store as usual. First of all, it’s like the other times, but this week is a little different, but this time, it’s because I’m planning to open until night on Friday and Friday.

I was thinking about what to make for the menu, but decided to focus on seafood. I plan to prepare various things, such as sashimi and grilling.

In fact, I was thinking of buying one tuna and serving it well, but since tuna is in season in the winter, it’s a nighttime business, and I want to serve the best, if not the best, so I was eliminated from the candidate.

Tiriririri~!!!

While I was preparing for business, I received a call on the store phone. It was often left there for sales inquiries or other needs, but it was quite strange that it usually came before business hours.

I want something, so I answer the phone. Then, a very poor Korean sound came from the other side.

-Have a rest. Restaurant Ethan, is that correct?

“Yes?”

It sounded like a foreigner forced to pronounce Korean. Even so, the accent itself was familiar.

It’s not easy for me to feel familiar with the language…….. It’s not a matter of being able to do it or not, it’s a matter of using it often. Even if you use it for about 100 years, there is no way you will be familiar with the language you used in the early days of reincarnation.

“Are you Italian?”

-Five!!! You’re right!!!! That’s great, you know how to speak Italian!!!

They showed a look of delight and cheered. But being Italian… What is it? You don’t have much of a relationship with him this time round?

At best, a few Italian chefs I knew from when I was working in the Hanon family kitchen. However, if it was someone other than that, I couldn’t guess why he would contact me.

– My name is Antonio. He is the head chef of a restaurant called Tavolo d’oro in Italy.

It’s a name I’ve heard before. It is a restaurant that often appears in famous gastronomic magazines and programs, and it was also the place where the Pope’s banquet was prepared.

The Italian chefs I mentioned earlier have also mentioned this, so it’s a skillful restaurant. I’ve never been there, but if the chef of the Hannon family judged it that way, it means that it was at least on a considerable level.

But why in such a store?

At that time, while looking at social media before, I remembered a comment that seemed like someone had turned on a translator. Like the fact that the person who wrote the article was from the Italian side.

Did you call because of the truffle?

“Did you call about truffles?”

– Yes, you know. I saw the truffle you used through the photos posted on social media before. I contacted you because of that.

Certainly, that stuff was real. To the extent that any chef who handles truffles will covet it.

Usually the size of the truffle was not that big. It is the size of a baby’s fist. That alone makes a million units, but the bigger it is, the more expensive it is.

I think the price of a truffle weighing 1 kilo was over 100 million. In fact, if you think about it, you can see how cheaply we made truffle dishes at our store.

-I’ve been dealing with truffles for over 20 years, but the truffles I saw in the picture were the best of the best. Its size and moisture……. I couldn’t smell the scent because it was a photo, but I think it must be very strong. Isn’t it?

“It is, but I got it by accident, so it will be difficult to find.”

– There were as many as three truffles posted on social media. Not one, but a truffle that size. If it was one, I would have thought that such a thing would come out after a long time, but if there were three, it wouldn’t be strange to have more than one.

“…………”

He is sharp, but not sharp. It’s like an obsession on the one hand. Obsession as a cook… I know that feeling well.

It is like bringing dozens or hundreds of modern paints to old painters. Looking at the vivid and numerous types of finely divided paints, no matter how street painters would like to use them, so are the cooks. However, in this case, paint would be the food ingredient for the cook.

The mind is imaginary, but it is not. The truffle is a thing from the Garden of Eden, a blessed environment, so you can’t just sprinkle it.

Even in the soon-to-be-released Garden of Eden, such high-end ingredients are not included in the exchange items. To be honest, it was too much even if it was sprinkled in a billing game.

No, later in-game inflation will increase, so even if it is a high-end exchange product, it will only be raised with very small things. That’s because it’s on a common sense level.

“I’m sorry, but I have nothing else to say about the truffle.”

-Can’t you do something? As for the price, you are willing to pay whatever you want.

“It’s not about money. Then I’ll hang up.”

-Now, wait…

I just hung up the phone. I called several more times after that, but I didn’t answer. Around that evening, there was no phone call, so I just thought it was a brief happening and tried to forget it.

Until two days later, the person in question flew from Italy to Korea and came to our store.

Smart smart!!!

“It’s not opening time yet, what’s going on…”

“I’m sorry, but I wanted to find that truffle anyway, so I came here.”

Middle-aged foreigner. He looks a bit older for his age, but his health itself seems to be fine, and he seems to have a lot of small scars on his hands.

Knife marks, burn marks, and more. And most of all, calluses that stand out. A scar like that is a medal for someone who has worked in the kitchen for a long time. Besides, as you can see, he’s still on active duty.

When I heard the introduction, I heard that he was the head chef…….. At that age, it would be easier to only direct, but if you do it on purpose, you seem to be a stubborn person.

No, so I came from Italy to Korea in two days. Since I came today, the second day, it actually took a day.

“Come in first. I’ll even serve you a coffee.”

“Yes, thank you”

I brewed espresso using the coffee machine. I was thinking of mixing coffee with ice and making it cool, but espresso is good for Italians.

For reference, if you take out something like Americano, the earthen pot will break. Italians have so much pride in coffee that they hate espresso and watered Americano. That’s why Ana also looks uncomfortable when she sees people carrying iced americanos.

“Espresso. Add as much sugar as you like.”

“I will drink well”

He puts a few tablespoons of sugar in his espresso. Then he stirs well to dissolve the sugar and takes a careful sip of the coffee.

“It’s a good espresso. A lot of shops rely on machines.”

“It’s just coffee for a person without a barista license”

“Certificate doesn’t prove skill. Of course, it’s a minimum guarantee, but there are many really talented chefs who don’t cling to certification.”

While she was preparing to open the store, she didn’t really need a barista license, so she didn’t. It’s good if you have it, but you don’t really need it if you don’t. Oh, of course, I got some kind of cooking license, liquor manufacturing, and even a blowfish cooking industrial engineer license just in case.

In fact, in terms of skill, it is far beyond the master craftsman, but there is nothing you can do about it. This is because a craftsman needs practical experience, not skills.

“Then let’s get to the point. Why did you come all the way here to ask for truffles? Italy is also famous for producing truffles, so there must be plenty of truffles that could be used instead.”

Truffles are also found in Italy. Rather, truffles are native to Europe.

But if you come all the way to Korea across the sea and make truffles, I think there must be a reason for that.

“Besides, aren’t white truffles considered the best in Italy? The ones I bought at the store are black truffles.”

“But in France, black truffles are considered the best.”

“France?”

“Yes, I want the truffles because the French president is due to visit soon, and I’m in charge of the dinner.”

“Hmm”

I was watching the news, but I didn’t even know that the president of a distant country was visiting another country. Who’s going to find out what’s important or what’s happening in a country halfway around the world?

But it’s Italy and France… This will be a battle of pride.

When it comes to gastronomy, many people think of France, but in fact, the old French cuisine was not very developed. Italian cuisine began to develop in earnest as it moved to France.

However, in modern times, French cuisine is famous. Of course, Italian cuisine is also famous, so if you look for it, there are a lot of Italian restaurants, but when comparing the two, many people say France is superior.

How does it feel to be a leader who has been pushed back by a latecomer? Comparing it, it would feel like Kimuchi in Japan has become more famous than Korean kimchi.

No, thinking about it, that’s crazy.

“I want to make the dinner perfect with our Italian pride. To do so, we need the best quality, both white and black truffles, but we have found the white ones but not the black ones. That came to me”

“Hmm……”

If that’s the case, honestly, I’m a bit shaken.

I don’t really have any attachment to a particular country, but if I get caught for cooking, the story changes. It’s even more so because it’s a personal matter for me.

Besides, Italy is also Ana’s hometown, and there are bandits there too.

If it was because I just wanted to try cooking truffles like that, I would have refused to the end even if I was a little sorry, but now I was ambiguous about the situation. I decided to listen to the story more and decided to continue the conversation.

“Why do you want to do that on purpose? The Golden Table is a famous restaurant that also hosted the Pope’s dinner, so is it necessary?”

“…………”

He was silent for a moment, then told the story that caused the incident.

His expression when he says he remembers the emotions at that time is not very good. It’s bittersweet, futile, and quite complex.

“It happened a few years ago. At that time, the president of the French Senate visited our restaurant and gave us the best hospitality.”

“……..”

“At least at the time, it was the perfect menu, to the best of my ability. But when we finished, he said, ‘It’s fine for anything that isn’t French.'”

“Ugh”

It may have been a compliment to yourself, but at the point of comparison, the compliment loses its meaning. A compliment has value when it is fully evaluated.

Did better than anyone else better than anything Praise like that is to drop one side in the end. In addition, the percentage of compliments was quite low.

If a person sitting in a public seat says such things openly, is it bitter? And that meant undermining my pride as a cook.

Besides, Italian cooking judges are really no joke…… If that word had spread officially, there would have been a diplomatic problem.

“Thanks to that, I didn’t have the motivation after that, so I half-forced myself to take a sabbatical. Although I came back, the events of that time still remain deep in my heart.”

I would have been frustrated would have been foolish It took decades to rise to the top of the industry, but others compare it and put it down. Even if I said that it didn’t taste right because it didn’t suit my taste, it would have been less futile than that.

In technical terms, it’s called burnout syndrome……. Anyway, after hearing the story, I felt quite inclined.

“Italian cuisine and French cuisine. I don’t think either one is superior. Even though Italian cuisine has been greatly influenced in the past and today’s French cuisine is, in the end, it is a cuisine with a different direction. But on the contrary, no one is below, so I I’m trying to prove it.”

Upright and stubborn. Besides, he has a good personality, and he is also a chef with the same job as me.

No, I can’t help but like this kind of person.

“He said his name is Antonio. First of all, please go home today. It’s business time soon.”

“Then………”

“See you on the weekend. I’ll take you to the truffle farm.”

“Ah!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!”

“I personally don’t like Italian food being ignored.”

There is only taste in cooking. That’s why there is no superiority or inferiority. I don’t say which dish is superior, but since I’m a human being, I don’t feel very good when my favorite dish is ignored.

No, who would be happy if someone cursed at their hometown cuisine? I was never born in Italy, but if it was my wife’s hometown in the first playthrough, it would be half of my hometown.

I promised and sent him the following. It’s a relationship that came suddenly, but I’m very happy that I met a good relationship.

The original world is like this. People who don’t know when to meet suddenly can become friends for life. Of course, the opposite could also be true.

First of all, I need to get ready to take the kids down to the Garden of Eden this weekend.

Thanks to that friend, this weekend seems to be quite fun.