The Combination of Magic and Cooking

The first test subjects had to be chosen carefully.

Molecular gastronomy—no, cooking with magic? Whatever this new technique was called, it was honestly dangerous.

If done wrong, it would look like a prank rather than food.

From a guest's perspective, seeing mist rise before their eyes, sauce burst like pearls, and cold cream hold firm on a hot plate would certainly be fascinating.

But it couldn't be merely fascinating; it had to be delicious.

The reason the molecular gastronomy boom had eventually died down was that, in the end, it hadn't done much to make food taste better.

To borrow the words of a certain famous chef, it was like apple-flavored molecular gastronomy that tasted worse than an ordinary apple.

Anyway, that was why I chose two people as the first tasting guests.

Count Rosenhart and Count Klever.

Aside from Elysia, they were the two most money-obsessed people I knew...