Unfamiliar Ingredients

By the time the Round of 32 ended, the amphitheater had become a completely different place.

At first, people had come to see the chefs—to watch who handled a knife well, who raised the heat high, and who received praise from the judges.

But starting with the Round of 16, the atmosphere changed.

People had come to watch the matches now, and they began paying attention to who survived, who was eliminated, and why the judges were arguing.

Much of that was thanks to Lucien and Timo's commentary.

They added tension even to a single shot of a chef chopping onions, and packaged the judges' time spent drinking water as well.

The moment Count Kleber heard that expression, he tried to make commemorative water bottles.

The moment I heard that, I wondered if the man had finally gone mad.

“Who would buy that?”

They sold out the next day...