Chapter 278: The Culinary Revolution, Again!

Chapter 278: The Culinary Revolution, Again!

Good morning and it's nice to meet all of you. May the Goddess bless our auspicious meeting today, everybody. My name is Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor, and Im the princess of whatever, as it doesnt matter today and, hehe, it looks like you all already know me.

Four chefs, five waiters and waitresses, and one dishwasher. That was the current number of employees Tamae had House Helvas and House Greenveil hire for our restaurant. All were either commoners with great references from working with the aristocracy or were members of a schwertnoble family, making them barons and viscounts.

At first, there were more people in this group, about twenty at first. However, Tamae never planned on getting so many people for the first iteration of the restaurant. She only wanted the minimum. Since we were planning on serving the influential with our establishment, there had to be some tests to weed out the less efficient workers from the best. And these were the best candidates from the entire pool, who were then allowed to build a rapport under Tamae and Svena.

After recruiting the people for the eatery yesterday, Tamae and I decided it was also high time we properly trained these people. We managed to finish up the menu yesterday and were now confident in sharing the recipes with our employees. As such, I decided on appearing today to make sure it went smoothly.

Buuuuuut, of course, it kinda went as you might expect considering they knew about me.

I-It is an honor, Princess Hestia! The ten-man group announced while kneeling down. As I said, all of them had experience working with nobles, so they knew somewhat how to act when they met a royal.

I smiled wryly as I turned around to face Amelia, who had a I told you so expression. Svena, standing behind me sighed and moved up, clapping her hands.

Everybody, Lady Hestia thanks you for your formality, but today is an important day. There is much to do, so we do not have the time to waste. Please, stand up, she ordered, prompting everybody to stand up. Clearly still nervous, they looked pretty rigidly as Tamae moved in front.

Everybody, today is a very important day, as this will be the start of our journey together as a team of restaurant Aurora. As you know, the goal for this restaurant is to serve premium dishes for our guests in our pursuit to better the culinary arts of our world, Tamae began her speech. As we have all told you before, I am one of the Heroes of Aurena and came from a different world than Peolynca. Hestia here is the one responsible for the spread of her version of yeast throughout Artorias, and will also bring in various recipes from her homeland. With the both of us, we managed to create a menu of dishes we believed would be best suited for the first worldwide restaurant of Peolynca.

First worldwide restaurant of Peolynca sounded lofty for a title, but it was true. In Artorias, nobles didnt go out to eat. They either stayed at home or visited anothers nobles mansion to eat with them. In Gleisvale, we did find some eateries which served food to wealthy merchants, but none of them were called restaurants.

But I guess the most enticing part about being able to claim that title was the fact that our restauraunt used the nexus as a platform to serve people from different countries and cities in a single place. Just like how Duke Greenveil was able to negotiate with the new Duke Equevanna despite being two duchies away, we could serve people from Gleisvale and Artorias at the same time.

Svena handed copies of our menu to the staff members, allowing them to read what we were planning. As I read through it, I noticed the majority of the employees were raising an eyebrow. Considering about 90% of the dishes on the menu were heavily inspired by Earthen dishes, it was to be expected they never heard about them.

Mister Ademnis, Tamae called out to a brawny man with a slight belly dressed in a white outfit you would expect a chef from a fine dining restaurant. With a stern expression, he nodded and walked forward. As I mentioned last time, you will be my sous chef my deputy chef, in other words. You will be my second-in-command while we work in the kitchen, so you must be sure to remember every single dish, do you understand?

Of course, Lady Tamae. Such a gift from the Goddess, I will cherish it from the depth of my heart. I shall mark each ingredient into my soul, to never forget them. Surprisingly, or maybe not, this aloof-looking man showed a fierce passion for not only cooking but Aurena, too. He was the only person I saw who was more focused on reading the menu than being flustered by them.

Good. Tamae clapped her hands before putting her hair into a ponytail. Then, I expect you and everybody else to watch intently how we cook these dishes. Hestia. Priscilla. Lets go.

Hearing the signal, Svena quickly turned my slightly messy hair into a perfect ponytail while the 13-year-old Priscilla stepped out from her hiding spot behind Tamae. Unlike every other time Ive met her, Priscilla wasnt in her human form today, but rather she showed up in her dragonewt form.

W-What??? The employees looked at the two of us in surprise.

Tamae, noticing this, quickly explained what was happening. I had to test each individual dish before I placed them on the menu, of course. Since it was late, I needed help and I called on Hestia and this young dragonewt for help. Priscilla shall be my sous chef for the eatery designed to serve commoners. She has learned how to make every single dish on the menu somewhat. Mister Ademnis, I expect you to do the same.

Y-Yes! Lady Tamae! Finally flustered, Tamaes sous chef eyes widened as he watched Priscilla walk past him and to her station in the kitchen. I heard all of the employees here declined to work in the eatery, as it wasnt part of their contract, so I did wonder what Tamae was planning by having Priscilla here today.

Yesterday, while Tamae and I worked on the menu, Yorshka came back to the subspace with both her daughter and Haati. While Svena and Josine showed Haati to her room, located in the attendant area" as the former two liked to call it, Priscilla joined us with eyes filled with anticipation. She wanted to cook.

Watching her childish curiosity, we couldnt help ourselves and decided on testing the dishes with her. At first, Tamae and I worked together since we knew Saori and Asaka wouldnt be around today due to their spy mission. I was also somewhat familiar with each dish and how they should taste, so I was the best helper Tamae could find for the restaurants theme of French and Italian inspired dishes her parents specialties.

After we managed to produce passable versions of about 60% of the menu and allowed Priscilla to taste them, we then began training as a three-man group, emulating the process of an actual kitchen. We had to show the chefs how to cook the dishes and the waiters and waitresses how they tasted and looked, so this was the only way to do it.

Of course, I saw that they were nervous that I was participating, but I simply told them this wasnt a problem.

As I said, everybody. My rank doesnt matter today. Instead of focusing on it and becoming nervous, watch and learn. All ten of you will become the forerunners for the culinary evolution of our world. With [Royal Presence] activated, I gave them a slight motivational speech before I joined the other two. I had my head already turned around before I saw how they reacted, but since Svena didnt tell them off as the head waitress for the restaurant, my words probably did something.

Once the three of us were at our stations, we all breathed in deeply and out.

Alright, the first step is the entres. Let us begin! Hestia, cast your spells!

And that was the signal to begin!

Haste! Music on!

[Haste] [Music Resonation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

With a snap, a gray magic circle appeared around me before I began playing some classical music, sharing the buff with Tamae and Priscilla. By thinking of my spectators as enemies, I could prevent them from gaining the buff.

Using my high Agility and [Haste] buff, I moved into the pantry and carried out the ingredients needed for our entrees. Once they were there, I began cutting the chicken, removing all the meat and fat from the bones as best I could; meanwhile, Priscilla began cutting the vegetables while using wind magic to help her.

French and Italian cuisine. Those are names of the cultures our menu will be inspired from. Fine dining, regardless of which world it came from, always strives to bring out the potential of the ingredients. To elevate them further beyond what you could imagine. The mark of a good chef is being flexible enough to adapt to the local produce, and to turn that into your art. Tamae began her explanation. While cutting the meat, I noticed the chefs taking notes on wooden slates, focusing on watching either Priscilla or me.

Tamae continued. I will not be adapting everything I learned from Earth into this restaurant for now, but I will add more once I become satisfied with the current results. As such, the first course of our guests meals will be the entre the entry dish.

Proficiency requirement fulfilled. [Dismantle Lv. 8] evolved into [Dismantle Lv. 9]

Once the bones and vegetables were ready, Priscilla and I placed everything into a metal pot placed over a stove. Then Priscilla activated the fire runes Grimnir etched onto them, creating fire without the need for wood. By pouring more mana into the rune, the flames grew in size and warmth. Once done, she slightly filled the pot with water using her magic. Like her mother, Priscilla was a water and wind mage and has been using her magic during her days in the hunters guild kitchen.

Too warm, Priscilla, I called out before using [Volcanic Blaze] to reduce the size of the flame to boil the water slower. Priscilla caught on and removed some mana from the rune.

Priscilla then grabbed the dried spaghetti I brought out and put them into another pot to boil with some salt, beginning the second entree spaghetti napoli, also known as marinara. Afterwards, we left the rest to Tamae and began the preparations for the main course.

There are multiple entrees we could offer, but I am planning on keeping it small with four options. Two of them an cepillium chicken consumm and tazghetti with matato sauce will be served for you to taste today.

While we kept the word consumm around since we didnt know a better alternative, we did change the word for spaghetti into tazghetti since the noodles were made using tazlokwheat. This dwarven wheat was the toughest wheat we could find, making it perfect to give our noodles that bite you expect from them.

Also, since the names of certain ingredients were completely different in this world, we also had to change them to their Peolyncian variant. Onions were cepilliums and tomatoes were matatoes.

With the help of House Greenveil, we managed to start production on tazghetti and other pasta hard noodles varieties similar to our yeasts facilities. Watch and learn. This is how you make the noodles al dente. Just right. And, the sauce cannot be neglected, as that will be the lynchpin of the dish, alright, Miss Ivy?

Yes, Lady Tamae. I will make sure to focus," the saucier of the kitchen staff nodded.

With her deft hand, Tamae began preparing the tomato sauce for the pasta, explaining her moves and actions while preparing it as if it was second nature for her. Once the noodles were done, she poured out the warm water and rinsed the noodles in cold water using the rune-etched sink. Pretty much the whole kitchen had different runes made by Grimnir.

All of you are beginners when it comes to being mages, so please use the in-built mana batteries to fuel the runes. Otherwise, use your magic to expedite the process, okay?

In Peolynca, magic was everywhere and, for many people, it was also a daily part of their lives. As attendants and servants of the Artorian nobility, they were taught beginner-level magic to help them with their work. As such, every single employee before us had one or two spells in their profile.

In this world, we could use that magic to speed up our cooking process. Saori used her [Shadow Clones] to man the kitchen by herself, and Priscilla and I used our spells to make the cooking easier.

In a normal kitchen, chefs didnt use magic as often due to the threat of arcane corruption. It was always a problem for them since they didnt have access to fulinoe leaves. However, we did. We offered tea to them to drink during their breaks. While expensive for a normal business, to us, the leaves grew in our garden in abundance.

With the tazghetii with matato sauce finished, Tamae served a large portion for everybody to taste, including Svena, Amelia, and Josine. After showing them how to eat it, everybody else began to devour it.

Mhmm. As expected from Tamae. Your food is always delectable to eat, Amelia praised Tamae, being the only one to sit down as she was a noble.

While Amelia, Svena, and Josine were already used to Tamaes cooking from staying inside the RV, the staff members, on the other hand, were blown away.

Mhmm?! How are these noodles so soft but still firm at the same time? Werent they made with tazlokwheat? Shouldnt they be harder? one of the waitresses exclaimed, baffled as she tasted the noodles.

You must be joking? Concentrate on the sauce. Didnt Lady Tamae only use matatoes, allsati, papricha, and some aromatic herbs to make it? Why does it taste so much better than what Ive already made? The chef called Ivy commented, only tasting the sauce without the noodles.

Ivy, dont just concentrate on the sauce. Lady Tamae already taught us to take in the full experience, we need to taste and analyze everything presented to us, another chef rebuked Ivy before taking in another fork full of pasta.

Food. I like food.

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