"If following the steps in a cookbook were enough to rival a master chef, would Totsuki even need to exist?" That was what Sogo Doma said as he watched the second daughter question her entire life.
Totsuki's reputation was simply impossible to refute...
As for the Totsuki Elite Ten... Emmm, let's put it this way: even the least successful Elite Ten graduates could become Michelin head chefs. Those doing even moderately well went into collaborative production and became bosses themselves.
As for those cooking guides, most were written by students who had failed to make it or had been expelled from Totsuki. The food they produced was not bad, but compared with the Elite Ten...
The simplest example was Utaha Kasumigaoka. A bestselling author like her had nearly wept when treating someone to a meal at Kirinoya. Nothing else needed to be said—just one word: expensive!
But then again, Kirinoya's head chef, Hinako Inui, was an Elite Ten graduate. Never mind her actual culinary skills; the Totsuki name alone was enough to make people pull money from their wallets. The most outrageous part was that those paying still thought it was worth it!
Yukinoshita's cooking skills were not bad, but she could not make people empty their wallets and still call it worthwhile. After all, even the cooking textbooks she studied had been written by a former Elite Ten member...
And they were not even lesson plans written with any real care!
In any case, the second daughter truly could not resist the allure of the cat food someone had made for her. Heh, heh heh...
Even so, there was no denying that Yukinoshita had decent cooking skills. It was also the only area in which the second daughter could defeat her sister. After all, Haruno did not need to