Fermat's Cuisine Episode 3

Beautiful math

Kai tries to invite Gaku and the one refusing to give name on an outing. When Gaku accidentally trashes that idea Kai changes plans to have them cook a meal for acquaintances of Gaku. He doesn’t realize that it’s a school donor and his math friend from school that found him boring. She always believed that she was the one that chased him away from math. What she did do was make him reevaluate his math potential and recognize he wasn’t finding it fun any more. One of Kai’s sous chefs wants to launch her own idea for a restaurant. She created a beautiful dish combining synergies of seafood and pork. It was done so that the flavors truly complimented. Gaku loved the idea and decided he wanted to try for the meal. He was sabotaged by his sous chef who wanted to launch one of his ideas. Gaku had too much info and first dish a disaster. He quickly creates another that the sous chef ate. Whether true or not he said the food was delicious but the presentation awful. He then cuts lose with anger that a novice could create such a dish. He admitted being jealous and hoping to use his ideas. Gaku worked with him to show his friend the beauty of math via food. She found this Gaku interesting. The sous chef revealed his name as Magoroku. He told Gaku his father had yet to call him by name in the kitchen. It was always ‘hey you’. The two bond over washing dishes. He let his friend know that she had no part in his decision to run away from math. That he now loved cooking and used math to create recipes. After the dinner she was convinced and felt she had regained her lost friend. At the end of the episode the time moves forward and the chefs decide to mutiny against Gaku. He is losing it so it is not without reason. One thing that he told his friend when at their Tokyo-esque restaurant was that he felt lonely. That was unexpected this early. He is seeing in advance the cost of being peerless.

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Easter egg found in Ep 3.

My very first original easter egg was found here, in episode 3 of Fermat no Ryori (Fermat's Cuisine). This enjoyable Japanese series blends comedy, bromance, foodie fun, and surrounds it all with watching one of my fav J-Actors, Shison Jun. The easter egg is at 13:00. Kitada and his girl-friend are at a Tokyo restaurant and in walks the senior chef (Kitada still doesn't know his name-sorry you need to watch it to understand) from restaurant K. Kitada goes over to the bar, where the chef is using his Ipad to look over some recipe plans. Kitada and he talk for a moment. Kitada says he's looking forward to working with him tomorrow. And the chef says "How nice. Life as a pet must be so pleasant". And BOOM! There's the easter egg.! This line is a reference to Shison Jun's previous romantic drama "Kimi WA Petto" (Life as a Pet), where he lives with, and play-acts the role of "pet" to his love interest. Everything I've seen Shison Jun act in has been worth the watch. In Kimi Wa Petto, we even get to see him do some of his exceptional modern interpretive dance moves.

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