I Reincarnated as a Michelin Chef
Gus ran one of Lyon's best kitchens. He also hadn't slept properly in three years, hadn't called his mother in six months, and had just screamed at a nineteen-year-old commis for burning a sauce during the most important service of the year. When he walks out into the Lyon night and falls into another world, he expects monsters, a prophecy, maybe a sword.
What he gets is grey gruel and boiled meat.
Gormandia is a prosperous kingdom — castles, magic, ancient forests — where a catastrophe five centuries ago wiped out nearly every herb, spice, and reason to look forward to dinner. Nobody mourns it. They never knew what they were missing.
Gus is taken in by Caréme, a tired innkeeper who cooks out of duty and hasn't felt joy at a table since her husband died. He has no mana, no combat skills, no destiny. What he has is knife technique, a palate sharpened over fifteen years, and a desperate need to do the one thing that still makes him feel human.
So he lights the fire. And he starts cooking.
No chosen one arc. No world-ending threat. Just a burned-out chef rediscovering why food matters — one bowl, one village, one quietly changed life at a time.
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