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[gastronomics]

[ The video starts on a single glass:



It's set on a counter next to a sink. ]

Caramelized bacon with crystallized egg yolk, to end on a dessert note of anti-griddle-frosted mango sabayon. It's good but..

[ It's not good enough. She sounds disappointed in herself. Her hand comes and slowly pushes the glass of breakfast into the sink, where it goes to waste. She goes slow enough that it almost looks like a tragedy when the perfectly crisp bacon hits the sink and breaks in its fragility, the mango sabayon tripping down the sink slowly like the spilled blood of breakfasts in some kind of breakfast war. ]

Everyone's worlds have so much more to offer in advancing my cooking and I haven't taken enough advantage. Tell me about your world's cuisine, please! In particular, breakfast. We'll worry about the other meals later, one step at a time.

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[kyoken]

[Of course, she gets to do all the cooking stuff while he's on the phone making arrangements for their upcoming project. Very fair, Alice.]

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[gastronomics]

[ Once she's off the video she comes over to him. Get off the phone, silly head. She's just going to prod his sides lightly at the same time with her index fingers until he pays attention to her. Ryo, come cook with her. ]

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[kyoken]

[Are you serious, Alice. If he doesn't make the arrangements, they don't get done in a timely manner. He continues to talk on the phone while she prods him, trying to push through it to get this done.]

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[black_black_heart]

I'm from a real basic Earth with real basic stuff. So, not much help there.

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[gastronomics]

Hmm... well, what's your favorite then? There's no sense in ignoring what I already know if the group here has preference for a certain kind. There are all kinds of regional breakfasts even in basic Earth, it's not all bacon and eggs.

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[zenoh]

[ Ayame is chillin' at a coffee shop when she sees this video in the net. Watching the depressed Alice throw away the perfectly looking sabayon almost made her gasp. And that poor bacon... ]

Hello again. I assume you're from a planet Earth? If so, I have little knowledge of new cuisines to offer you. Cooking is something I'm new at. However, a subarchway left behind by my colleague does offer a variety of Earth-based foods, particularly Emirati cuisine.

[ She's had food from different universes, but sadly she doesn't think she's good enough to describe them with words. She just ate them. ]

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[gastronomics]

You should still share your knowledge! Just because I'm from an Earth doesn't mean I know all of earth's cultures. Anything might be inspiring. What sort of Emirati cuisine do you like?

[ That might be good to know. She's never really worked with that culture's food. ]

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[zenoh]

[ Ayame takes a moment to ponder and recall the limited amount of Emirati foods she had the chance to eat. She mostly stuck to one dish in particular, since she wasn't as adventurous before than she is here in Genessia. ]

I can only recall having one kind of local breakfast dish there, which is essentially just a version of pancakes called a chebab. If I remember correctly, the ones I've had in a particular restaurant added saffron, rose water, and cardamom into the flour. Date syrup and sesame seeds are added as the final touch.

[ Thinking back about it just made her hungry again. Ayame sighs quietly, feeling a tinge of regret that she didn't try more of the local stuff when she had the chance ]

The dish I had the most is the kabsa. Simply put, it's a dish with slow-cooked meat on top of rice and mixed with a variety of spices. The meats range from chicken, beef, fish, goat, and even camel which I've had. It's quite delicious. The way they cook meat in a clay pit oven dug on the ground is something I haven't seen before as well.

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[youfool]

[Gee, that looked novel! And such strange and interesting words, too. He'll have to look up what "anti-griddle-frosted" means.

And down the drain it goes, falling just as fast as his expression. Alas, poor breakfast-drink-thing, killed before your providence.]

Goodness, was it as bad as all that? Was there no means to give it to someone who'd have enjoyed it regardless of imperfections?

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[gastronomics]

[ It's pretty much exactly what the name says it is- it lowers the temperature instead of raises it. ]

It wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't worth selling at the restaurant and if I give away food all the time I end up attracting the wrong kind of crowd...

[ She gave free food to Mercury all the time before his evil half tried to kill her. The only reason she's not as livid about it is because he also saved her, but that doesn't make her comfortable just pulling losers in to eat her test food any more... ]

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[truesmiles]

I must admit that looked better than what I could come up with.

[And considering he has a cafe, he did limit himself on what he could cook, which was mostly desserts.]

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[gastronomics]

Of course it does. I wouldn't be an award-winning gourmet chef if I couldn't make something at minimum this visually impressive. It's a different category than cafes.

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[truesmiles]

Well different kinds of foods as well. You do more variety, whereas I just do desserts.

[He is tempted to just see how creative he can be though when he was the time and has nothing else to do.]

Though I do wonder how do you come up with ideas?

[gundesign]

Wha...?

[She can't deny that Jeb would make it taste delicious, though. Maybe even delicious enough for this woman's standards -- but she doesn't voice this. ...right. She should probably something else.]

My world's breakfast is pretty simple, you know? Eggs made in different ways, hashbrowns, pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, toast, English muffins, that kind of good stuff. [But... hm.] Hey, have you ever heard of a breakfast pizza?

[gastronomics]

So super-American breakfast?

[ That seems to be what most people are familiar with here. ]

[gundesign]

Yeah, more or less. [She laughs.] But hey, can you blame me? I'm from Massachusetts! You don't get much more American than that, you know?

[Well, she's from a Massachusetts, at least. Tori's sure that with each varying version of Earth-- the US in particular-- there's differences. ...maybe she should find out sometime.]

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[captain_by_the_book]

I can't say anything about the taste, but it looks impressive. I would like to try it.

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[gastronomics]

You're welcome to stop by Nakiba once I perfect it. This one wasn't good enough for me, and I'd never put anything on the menu that doesn't make my customers melt.

[captain_by_the_book]

I understand not wanting to serve a dish before it's been perfected. I hope you'll keep the presentation, at least, it looks delicious.

I'll stop by, for this or other of your creations.

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[reachnotflexibility]

[What even is that? Human food is strange.]

Back home we have something called Pulan Toast. It's similar to your French Toast from what I've been told.

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[gastronomics]

How is it made? What's the difference between it and French toast?

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[reachnotflexibility]

It's... uh. Huh. I don't know how it's made. I've never actually cooked the dish myself. The chef aboard the Normandy would serve it whenever he made French toast for the crew. I can't eat French toast - it's levo - so I can only tell you what I've been told. Which is that it's like French toast but not nearly as good.

Sorry, it's all I've got.

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[stairsbro]

Holy shit. That was fucking art. That could've won best short picture.

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[gastronomics]

How so? It wasn't good enough, so I dumped it.

[ She doesn't get it. It's a loss to her. ]

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[stairsbro]

Okay but that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" saying thing totally applies to everything you cook because even your shitty food is like four thousand times better than grandma's best. Like to the average person that was like watching someone pour money down a garbage disposal. It was a greek tragedy.