How to become a great chef using mathematics. This is the premise of the TV series: “Fermat’s Cuisine” broadcast on Netflix and based on the manga by Yugo Kobayashi.
10 rather engaging episodes, in which you are captivated by the charm of creating exquisitely emotional dishes. The young Gaku Kitada (Takahashi Fumiya), a promising mathematician, abandons the idea of becoming a great academic in this subject when he sees that there are more gifted people. In this state of despondency and depression, he is noticed by an important star chef, Kai Asakura (Shison Jun), while the student prepares a plate of spaghetti.
Remaining pleasantly satisfied with the dish prepared, he wants him with him in his restaurant K, where there are other high-level chefs but Kai hides a dramatic secret…
The directors, Yasuharu Ishii, Shunichi Hirano and Maiko Ohuchi, have been able to surprise the viewer with a narrative always full of twists and turns, demonstrated by a solution of continuity throughout the story, thanks to the resolution of problems in the kitchen, with the touch of genius Gaku’s mathematician.
A screenplay that holds firm with a use, in some cases of very subtle irony but which is lost towards the last episodes, with a rather weak and rushed ending, with narrative holes and not very incisive. Around the main plot, there are further subplots which, however, are little developed while they would have had a considerable importance in the life of the Local and the main characters, with the result that certain situations and some rather mysterious characters fall on deaf ears.
In Fermat’ Cusine, he could make the kitchen puritans turn up their noses for some choices, the first is when Gaku prepares Spaghetti Napulitan, or spaghetti with tomato, he puts frankfurters, peppers and instead of using tomato puree he uses Ketchup. The second thing that raises some doubts about the real qualities of this starred restaurant is that among the many chefs present: Chinese, French, Spanish…. An Italian is missing!