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tenuefarfalla ([personal profile] tenuefarfalla) wrote2019-07-08 09:57 pm
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[personal profile] benhargreeves 2019-12-18 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WELL GOSH he hadn’t been expecting all that. He has a sense right then of the two of them – Ben so worried about imposing and Cho being too generous to say so; Cho so worried about Ben’s self-esteem… both of them, such worriers. He smiles, covering it with his hand even though there is no one to see, and types back simply: ]

Okay.

Then I would love to help you, and to learn some more about cooking.

[ After a moment, he starts typing again. Cho might notice it takes a while, despite the message being short. He erases most of it a few times before retyping it, questioning himself, and then finally sending: ]

Do you know how to make any Korean dishes at all?
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[personal profile] tenuefarfalla 2019-12-25 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I love Korean food! I might not make it the way you're used to, though. I went to school in New York and that's where I learned from friends and some cooking classes. The Americanized versions of things are not always entirely authentic.

Is there something in particular you wanted to make?
benhargreeves: (:( remembering)

[personal profile] benhargreeves 2019-12-25 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, no. Ben had thought the implication of what he was asking was much clearer, but he'd been wrong. So he'll have to clarify. Even if it's mortifying in a way he hadn't even imagined possible. Feeling his face heat with embarrassment, Ben explains: ]

Oh, no. You have it all wrong. I'm not used to any particular way.
I haven't really had it before. Authentic or Americanized.

[ Which is the reason why her assumption that he'll be some discerning judge of it, full of knowledge and familiarity, is so particularly difficult and humiliating. Because he doesn't know any of the things she thinks he must and what's that say about him? ]

So I haven't got anything in particular I wanted to make I just thought it might be good to try it I guess.
I don't know.
That's pretty stupid, right?

[ Why had he even asked? Why had he said anything? Ben should've known better. ]
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[personal profile] tenuefarfalla 2020-01-04 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
That's not stupid at all! Food is a wonderful way to connect to culture, and I'm honoured that you thought of me to help you with that. Do you like spicy things? I know what you don't eat, but is there anything in particular that you really like to eat? What was your favourite food as a kid?

[ She is absolutely trying to build a flavour profile for Ben from this conversation now. ]
benhargreeves: (! rather be reading)

[personal profile] benhargreeves 2020-01-04 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not for the first time, Ben feels extremely grateful that he had met Cho. He loves his siblings, but he thinks Klaus would probably laugh, if he heard about this. Allison, too, maybe. It's too hard, with family. But Cho... she seems to get it.

So he thinks for a bit and starts telling her what foods he had liked, that Grace used to make. It's clear from the menu he discusses that there wasn't an awful lot of diversity in the dishes. Most were healthy but fairly joyless. Grace had some things she was good at, and she put a lot of love into those simple foods. But food had been a tool in the Hargreeves household. Nothing more. ]
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