Taishou was trained at a traditional restaurant, a ryotei, the one run by Shinobu's family. It comes up in chapter 26. I think Ludwig the elder's criticism is just that Taisho's cooking isn't like traditional Aitherian cooking, probably because Taisho isn't Aitherian.
I think he believes his son is overconfident (and he was) and that he needs to become more humble. Taisho and Ludwig the younger are both talented, but Taisho has the consideration to recognize that the father lost his sense of taste and serves him a dish that he'd enjoy, while the son saw his...
Page 11 has a reference to Cooking Master Boy- the two vendors selling peaches look like the main guy and girl from that series. Incidentally, the guy makes the girl buns shaped like peaches as a romantic gesture in Shin Cooking Master Boy.
The Kong Ming being referenced here is the one from...
Anybody else notice the copy and past art in this chapter? Characters will appear in identical poses in multiple chapters, sometimes with a small change in expression. They've done it in other chapters, but it feels like they did it a lot here and it's not subtle.
Honestly, Sigurd was in the right. The best fighter in the group isn't necessarily going to be a good leader. It's the Peter Principle: an employee who's good at their job will get promoted to a new job requiring new skills, and they'll keep getting promoted until they reach a position where...
It's pretty funny to introduce the idea of God's Tongue in a cooking manga and have the wielder just be a normal person who doesn't play a big part in the story. If this were like Shokugeki no Soma, she'd be a major character and rival, but since this a slice of life, it doesn't really matter...
Page 6 is a joke about copyright, if anybody doesn't get it. The Tolkien estate has a copyright on ents, so they use treants to get around it. Beholders are one of the few monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that Wizards of the Coast has a copyright claim on.
This chapter was hard to follow. If I understand it right, Matsu's daughter was married off to the boss (the chairman?), and Ohashi and his wife helped arrange it.
Page 2 says Ohashi "remarried his daughter" but that doesn't seem right. I'm assuming this is supposed to say that Ohashi helped...