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Xia Yu knew where the problem lay.
Not long ago, he had spent 1000 reputation points to upgrade the kitchen. The remaining points were enough for him to exchange for a spice-related cooking skill at the Chef God Store, which could be used with the "Spice Affinity" talent.
However, the application of cooking skills also needed a solid foundation in the study of spices.
To put it another way, it was like a scholar who had never learned any martial arts theories, suddenly having a world-class secret manual stuffed into his brain one day, yet unable to transform the knowledge into concrete techniques.
So, Xia Yu knew very well what his first step should be if he wanted to develop in the field of spices—
A crash course in spice knowledge!
Starting from the very basics of rote memorization, he needed to remember the commonly used spices around the world, understand their uses and taboos, and then move on to more advanced topics.