This feels aggressively mediocre. The art is fine, but the story is a constant stream of, "Here's theoretical challenge. Here's me beating theoretical challenge with well-known dishes that somehow nobody has tasted this good before for no good reason. Challenge is over with no real stakes." As of the 30s, no character sticks around for any meaningful amount of time, and it's fallen into the usual constant streams of 'say there's improvement but nothing happens'.