Isami Aldini Quotes

“Unlike Japan, Italy's cuisine has long centered on meat dishes.
In their home province of Tuscany, duck, rabbit, and even boar would be served in the right season.
I suspect that is how they learned how to butcher and dress a duck.
The breast meat was glazed with a mixture of soy sauce, Japanese mustard, black pepper and honey to give it a strong, spicy fragrance...
the perfect complement to the sauce.
Duck and salsa verde.
They found and enhanced the Japanese essence of both...
... to create an impressive and thoroughly Japanese dish!”
― Yuto Tsukuda, Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 3

“Oops!"
"Are you okay, Tadokoro?"
"Isami! Takumi!"
"Yukihira! How dare you make a lady carry so many heavy things! You are a disgrace to proper gentlemen everywhere!”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 15 [Shokugeki no Souma 15]

“Japanese people may find this surprising, but eel is a common ingredient in European cuisine.
Kurokiba's Eel Matelote from the Classic's Semifinal Round is one such European dish."
"Southern Italy in particular has a tradition of eating eel right around Natale, which is Christmas. It's often served during the feasts for La Vigilia on Christmas Eve night.
The eels are supposed to symbolize devils, and eating them is thought to be a charm warding off bad luck and evil spirits.”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 25 [Shokugeki no Souma 25]

“Wait, is that...
... a Calzone?!"
*A calzone is meat and cheese folded together in a pouch of pizza dough, depending on the area of Italy, calzones are either baked or deep-fried.
"Aren't calzones usually stuffed with salami, mozzarella cheese and other pizza toppings?"
"Ah, I know!
Yes, I was right! This calzone is stuffed with curry! Then this dish is "Italian-Style Curry Bread!"
Oh-ho! This dish is already interesting, being so different from all the others! Now let's see what it tastes like."
"Mph! Th-this flavor... tomatoes?
The curry is bursting with the rich tanginess of tomatoes!"
"Yep.
I made that curry using only water I extracted from tomatoes."
"Tomato water only?!
Are you saying you used no other liquid in this curry at all?!"
Yes, sir! See, if you stuff a pot full of tomatoes and turn on the heat, you can get a surprising amount of water out of them. I blended a special mix of spices that works with the tart tomato water...
... and made a thick curry sauce that's full of the rich flavor of tomatoes.
The crust is a sourdough I made using my family's handmade, natural grape yeast too."
The outer crust is crispy and flakey...
...while the inside is chewy and mildly sweet. ”
― Yūto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 7 [Shokugeki no Souma 7]