Chapter 338
Chapter 338
I did not know what kind of opportunity it was.
‘It is no different from usual.’
It felt like my blood was about to turn into alcohol. I kept drinking until it reached that point. The small lights inside the dark bar blurred in my vision. Elias smacked his lips as he drank, then pulled out a cheap liquor bottle about half the size of his palm from his jacket.
“If you drink rum and then whiskey, the whiskey you usually drink suddenly tastes twice as good. You have to periodically adjust the flavors that go into your mouth. That is how you can enjoy gastronomy, and also stop complaining uselessly about the world. Nobles get soaked in inertia, do not even feel grateful for whatever they eat, take it for granted, and do nothing but complain….”
“Yeah. That side of them does exist, I think.”
I slowly nodded, feeling my brain and eyes heat up with alcohol. I was not even sure what I was saying. As I mulled over it, I noticed a problem. I realized belatedly that I had spoken with my twenty-first-century modern self mindset and smacked my lips too late. Fortunately, since I was with Elias, it would not be a big issue that I, a noble, had criticized nobles.
“Gastronomy starts from gratitude. If your mindset is rotten from the start, then no matter what you eat, it is nothing more than a collection of nutrients, right?”
Right…. After that, Elias’s gastronomic theory poured out endlessly. Eating often felt like a burden to me, so I usually stuck to familiar foods, and I did not have much interest in gastronomy. Still, I liked hearing what Eli was thinking about in his life. It was always like that. Ever since I read him. I tried to engrave that information properly into my mind, nodding mechanically.