Chapter 273

The cooking competition's rule was simple—each team had to send out their new-gen apprentices to compete. Well, that made sense. Most of the time, it was those young ones handling the actual cooking in the kitchen anyway. Plus, letting a bunch of old-timers battle it out? Nah, that'd just be plain boring. Not that they were interested, either. Those guys couldn't be bothered—they'd rather throw their own trainees into the fray than lift a finger themselves. As for the Hughes family, well, the new apprentices they've trained in the past few years weren't exactly prodigies. Real talk, most of them wouldn't even survive the first round. Now Edward' own son? Clueless. Dude got into college, then turned around and went to start his own business. Never even looked at the kitchen. Even if the guy had talent, you can't just force someone to cook at knifepoint. And let's be real—if he did step up, who knows what'd end up on the plate? Worse comes to worst, it could tank the family's reputation