Chapter 503 - Self-Awareness (3) (2/2)
She continued, “I’nize you”
“I’m only a chef, not a celebrity”
“Well, there was a chef who got such wide recognition You know her, right?”
“I heard that Chef Rachel was such a chef”
“Everyone looked for Rachel’s recipe book When it was her airtiraredients for the dish she et access to the recipes, and there are so many chefs that her influence is not as powerful as before But…”
She looked at him and asked, “Isn’t it our specialty to walk a difficult road?”
He did not answer that for a long time He didn’t say a chef only needed to be faithful to his cooking, and that gaining popularity was not iinning As a matter of fact, popularity was inseparable froular customers a chef had, the more popular the chef was
If only she could ular and his fan
“But ould you get byme a star chef?”
“Do you re before? I asked you why you wanted ave et what you as to support the person around you who had theyou the saic Why shouldn’t I?”
She put her hand on his shoulder and said, “By the time I have Rose Island, you have America”
“A at hi the right words to say back to her, he just looked at her blankly
Of course, he once thought he wanted to become the best chef in the world as well as in the United States However, he felt his ambitions werea US president, for he didn’t knohat the best chef in the world meant In fact, no one knew it because everybody had a different opinion on who the world chef was That was the same case with the question of who the best American chef was
June certainly knew it But she just told him she would make him a star chef She said she would help him have America The chef who had America, namely the best American chef
Did she really knohat it meant?
“Well, aside froive me America?”
“Well, all you have to do is to be the best chef in A you because I’m not sure what that best chef means”
“Do you know that Abraham Lincoln is America’s most respected president?”
“Yes, I’ve heard it a few times”
“What do you think is the criteria for that?”
“Well, so like how many people think so?”
“Yeah, that’s the answer,” she said, sirl and pure like wild flowers, sparkling with expectations of happiness
“I’ to make everybody believe you are the best”
“Is that easy?”
“If it were me, it wouldn’t be easy But if it were you, it would be a different story”
“Why?”
“You probably knohy to solance because she thought his intentions were childish but cute when he asked that knowingly He blushed a bit with an eht she read histhat she didn’t, so only he had
“Is it because of my perfect palate?”
“Well, iano, your brilliant performance at the Grand Chef and Rose Island, your victory at the Paris International Culinary Competition, and the people’s perceptions and fantasy about you Also, their expectations that I will help you move on further, not just stay where you are”