Dan Yeo, a fellow sous chef who works at Club Mistral, ran up to me as I was walking across the parking lot to the restaurant. Head chef and owner of Club Mistral, Michiba Yoshida called everyone in early. At the moment, the prep chefs were probably finishing up and taking a break. Dan Yeo is always hyper but for him to run out like this, it means one thing.
"Savarin! Hey!" He reached me and stooped, panting. Dan Yeo has asthma. I waited for him to get ahold of himself.
"Savarin..." He looked up. "Today is a SPECIAL day! Wanna know why?" I nodded and he gave me his 'why can't you be more engergetic' look.
"We have the new menus!!"
"Danyo, you helped make the menu. I made a part in it, even Wineshlud helped." Dan Yeo looked contemptously for a moment.
"You don't know what our menus are! Yoshida-san, Wineshlud, me... We all have menus you don't know about!"
He continued to glare when I noticed that he had a folder in his hand.
"What is that?" I pointed to his hand.
"I am NOT telling you!"
"What? HEY! Don't walk away!" I ran forward to catch up with him. He took notice and ran towards the restaurant.
"AH! DANYO! HEY! I'm sorry! Come on! Tell me what's in the folder! Danyo, come on!" I pleaded as I raced after him.
Dan Yeo reached the restaurant first and had to stop, due to his asthma. I ran in and stopped in front of him. Panting, he held the folder to his chest. His panting lessened and I reached forward to grab the folder.
"SAVARIN!" The harshness of the voice startled me and I tripped forward.
I was ready to shout back at the guy who yelled, but then I saw him standing there in his tremendous fury. Michiba Yoshida was standing in the kitchen doorway, a knife in each hand.
"S-sorry sir!" I walked towards him. I opened my mouth to say explain when the knife in his left hand rushed up to meet my throat. I did not say anything but kept my eye on his arm.
"Savarin, Dan Yeo has asthma. Today is an important day. We need every one to do their best."
"Yes, the new menus are in and-"
"SILENCE! The new menu is in, yes. That is not the reason why I called you in early." I was about to ask what when he went on, "A prep chef. We have a new prep chef."
That news perked me up, I liked new chefs. I liked sharing new information and recieving new techniques in turn.
"Kishi Ecko!" Yoshida-san called into the kitchen. A teenager walked out of the kitchen.
"Yes, Yoshida-san?" He said.
"This man, Jeremy Savarin, is the third sous chef here. While a good chef, beware of him outside the kitchen."
"Why, sir?"
"Savarin is an idiot when he is not dealing with food."
"Yoshida-san..." I said. He looked at me, allowing me to speak. "Can you possibly... Your knife, you see..."
He looked at the knife and let his hand down. I exhaled. He arched his eyebrows and shoved Kishi forward into the kitchen and followed.
...
This is the first part of Battle Summer.
Dan Yeo's nickname is Danyo. Nobody calls him Dan. Some call him Dan Yeo and others call him Danyo.
Yoshida-san is harsh but he is well-meaning. He is a rather sweet and soft man deep down, but he is most harsh on Savarin. The reason why he raised his left-hand is that he IS left-handed. He is ambidexterous because chefs need to use their right-hand for making certain cuts. He has a special set of left-handed knives. He makes the strong cuts with his left and finer cuts with his right. So for him to raise his knife with his left-hand, it's a pretty big threat! There's only two times he'd do that, to make Savarin serious or to truly threaten someone he completely despises.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Kitchen Stadium: Battle Season
Yes, that is a large reference to Iron Chef.
OK, it's taken me a while, but I've finally got it. It pretty much took me a big (and awesome) idea to set me along and start THIS project. It's a story, four stories really, and it's called Kitchen Stadium. It's a four-part story about chefs. There are four sides - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Staying with the Iron Chef theme, I made them 'battles'. Each side is centred around a chef, following the same story. It's a lot like books that have more than one character and each chapter is a different character. However with this, it's not set up that way. They are four seperate 'books'. I don't think of them books because I'm still unsure how big this story really is (I didn't know that it would HAVE to be four stories until now).
The four stories revolve around Michiba Yoshida, Kishi Ecko, Jeremy Savarin and the College Years. I don't know who is the main character for the College Years or if it is just 3rd person. Michiba Yoshida-san is the main chef for Battle Fall. Kishi Ecko is the main chef for Battle Spring. Jeremy Savarin is the main chef for Battle Summer. The College Years is the group for Battle Winter. The only story, or battle, that is somewhat spoiler filled is the winter battle. The reason for that is because it's the backstory for Yoshida and the other owners of the Clubs. It isn't major, it's basically the entire reason why there are four clubs and that they are all fighting.
There are four restaurants and they are competing against each other (due to something in their college years, they were the four best chefs and friends). Yoshida-san runs Club Mistral. Charles Sabateour runs Club Martel. Dina Toul runs Club Marin. Marius d'Azur runs Club Marseille. All four of them want to be recognised as the best chef. They are trying for a 5-star. First one to 5-star and they win. They all have the same uniform, pretty much, except for the colours. Colours depend on the Club. Club Mistral has dark blue (not navy) and Club Marseille has light blue.
While Yoshida-san is deep into the bickering, Kishi Ecko and Jeremy Savarin (well, and the rest of his crew) care to help him, but don't make it their main concern. Savarin worships Yutake Ishinabe (the 1st French Chef from Iron Chef, he's the least well-known and runs a restaurant called Queen Alice in Yokohama, Japan) and Iron Chef. He, like Yoshida-san, believes for artistic food, along with taste. Kishi Ecko has a wonderful talent for colour and presentation but he's green ('He's a leek!' as Dan Yeo, a sous chef for Mistral, would say).
I think that's all? I hope that is. HAHA. This story has about fifty levels of complexity. The theme of France, Iron Chef and Four/Death is rampant through all of this. A lot of it is a weird stroke of chance... but then some of it IS planned, then chance steps in.
OK, it's taken me a while, but I've finally got it. It pretty much took me a big (and awesome) idea to set me along and start THIS project. It's a story, four stories really, and it's called Kitchen Stadium. It's a four-part story about chefs. There are four sides - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Staying with the Iron Chef theme, I made them 'battles'. Each side is centred around a chef, following the same story. It's a lot like books that have more than one character and each chapter is a different character. However with this, it's not set up that way. They are four seperate 'books'. I don't think of them books because I'm still unsure how big this story really is (I didn't know that it would HAVE to be four stories until now).
The four stories revolve around Michiba Yoshida, Kishi Ecko, Jeremy Savarin and the College Years. I don't know who is the main character for the College Years or if it is just 3rd person. Michiba Yoshida-san is the main chef for Battle Fall. Kishi Ecko is the main chef for Battle Spring. Jeremy Savarin is the main chef for Battle Summer. The College Years is the group for Battle Winter. The only story, or battle, that is somewhat spoiler filled is the winter battle. The reason for that is because it's the backstory for Yoshida and the other owners of the Clubs. It isn't major, it's basically the entire reason why there are four clubs and that they are all fighting.
There are four restaurants and they are competing against each other (due to something in their college years, they were the four best chefs and friends). Yoshida-san runs Club Mistral. Charles Sabateour runs Club Martel. Dina Toul runs Club Marin. Marius d'Azur runs Club Marseille. All four of them want to be recognised as the best chef. They are trying for a 5-star. First one to 5-star and they win. They all have the same uniform, pretty much, except for the colours. Colours depend on the Club. Club Mistral has dark blue (not navy) and Club Marseille has light blue.
While Yoshida-san is deep into the bickering, Kishi Ecko and Jeremy Savarin (well, and the rest of his crew) care to help him, but don't make it their main concern. Savarin worships Yutake Ishinabe (the 1st French Chef from Iron Chef, he's the least well-known and runs a restaurant called Queen Alice in Yokohama, Japan) and Iron Chef. He, like Yoshida-san, believes for artistic food, along with taste. Kishi Ecko has a wonderful talent for colour and presentation but he's green ('He's a leek!' as Dan Yeo, a sous chef for Mistral, would say).
I think that's all? I hope that is. HAHA. This story has about fifty levels of complexity. The theme of France, Iron Chef and Four/Death is rampant through all of this. A lot of it is a weird stroke of chance... but then some of it IS planned, then chance steps in.
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