God's Tongue was a gift, but it was also a flaw.
For example:
A dish that an ordinary person found passable, or even pretty good, could be more painful than chewing wax for Erina Nakiri. Her extremely sensitive palate magnified the flaws in a dish until they could even drown out its actual flavor.
Of course, Erina Nakiri was also lucky. Born into the Nakiri Family, she had only been subjected to junk food as a child by her terrible father. After that, with the Nakiri Family backing her, every meal she enjoyed could be described as meticulously prepared.
And all this led to one problem: Erina Nakiri's palate became more and more discerning. Still, her standards were always well-founded and convincing.
That was why a single sentence from her could decide whether a chef lived or died. No, not just a chef—even the fate of an entire restaurant could be determined by her word...
But as Sogo Doma put it: "That's only because she has the Nakiri Family, the number one family in the culinary world, behind her. Otherwise, she'd either get beaten to death for running her mouth or starve to death early on..."
In these circumstances, the Nakiri Family had truly gone to great lengths to provide for Erina.
But now...
What had Senzaemon Nakiri just heard?
That girl from the Arato Family had brought Erina lunch from outside. It wasn't that the Arato Family's cooking was bad, but the timing... If Senzaemon Nakiri remembered correctly, it had been nearly an hour since that lunch was brought over. It must have gone cold by now, and his precious granddaughter was actually...
It would've been one thing if nobody had cooked at home, but Erina had just made a pot of red bean rice! In Senzaemon Nakiri's eyes,