Gourmet: From the Start, I Had Only a Kitchen Knife, Yet I Made the Otherworld Drool

Jiang Xia was an apprentice cook at the public dining hall run by his father. When a fire broke out, he charged into the flames to save the Santoku knife, which he considered his father’s very soul. Then, when he came to his senses, he was deep in an unfamiliar forest. Attacked by a beast that looked like a wild boar, Jiang Xia was rescued by a girl named Ai Fa, who called herself one of the “Forest Edge People.” That was how he learned he was in another world. There were no gas stoves or refrigerators, and people ate only to survive. In a foreign land with no concept of cooking, an apprentice cook reigns supreme.