Fermat's Cuisine Episode 1

The math of food

The episode starts with a chef berating a sous chef for not ‘seeing’ that the dish isn’t made correctly. The chef seems very driven, aloof, and has himself alienated from everybody. His perfectionism is sought after by customers but dreaded by colleagues. The story then backs up to introduce Gaku Kitada, the top student at Weis and expected to be a math genius for UTokyo. His parents both wished him a happy life and at a very young age Gaku decided math made him happy and he wanted to be as good as Fermat. His father supported him in this endeavor and did everything possible to earn money to help him make his way to UTokyo when the time came. He worked in a diner and made a dish for him and a co-worker. He was watched very carefully by a man that had entered. After completing the dish, the customer wanted a plate made for him. Gaku refused because it was made for workers and he did not consider it suitable for a paying customer. The man grabbed a fork and proceeded to eat Gaku’s lunch.😂 Gaku didn’t know what to make of the guy who introduced himself as Kai Asakura. He was a Michelin star chef and he wanted Gaku to come work for him. Gaku politely said no thank you because he only loved math. When Gaku was taking the exam for the math competition, he realized that while he loved math and was quite good at it, that his dream of being a great mathematician was beyond his abilities. He saw it clearly and at that moment decided to end his goal of math. The Dean of the school gave him an option to enter the contest at a different school, but Gaku politely refused. The response from the school was to expel him before graduation and to pay back the 4.5million yen he owed the school for investing in him. The boy is distraught and Kai shows up with a single chance to change his fate. To cook a dish and win over the school officials dining at his restaurant or not try and go home a failure. The boy accepts the challenge and Kai tells him he can reverse engineer the dish he made to create a recipe. He made it perfectly and heated up the silverware. The Dean was then put in the position of thanking the chef for the excellent meal and reenrolling him in school. Gaku graduated top in his class and even was accepted at UTokyo, which he refused. The Dean and his dad were not happy with his choice. When the episode shows scenes of father and son, dad was always cooking. Without realizing it he wanted to be more like dad. He left to study cooking with Kai and his new adventure begins. The end of the episode is where it began…Gaku is a completely different person and not the sweet kid that loves math and cooking. I truly hope this is not the end of his story.

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