Aldini Takumi

Japanese name:

タクミ・アルディーニ

Age: 15-16
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 54 kg
Cuisine Style: Aldini Style Recipe/All Style
Food Forte: All
Occupation: High School Student
Affiliation: Trattoria Aldini, Tootsuki Culinary Academy

He is one of the student of Tootsuki Culinary Academy whom is a self-proclaimed rival to Yukihira Souma. Like Souma, Takumi's full experience in the kitchen during his youth has made him one of the best chefs in his family restaurant, Trattoria Aldini in Italy.Similar to Souma's style of cooking, he is considered as the cooking genius and resourceful student whom use various ingredients to create various dishes other than his forte culinary skill. It is also claimed that Souma's ideals and ambition is the sole reason for Takumi to have strong tenacity and determination to block Souma's progress to become a top chef, making him one of Souma's arch-rival in this very academy he enrolled in.

Pride with his Italian culinary expert, Takumi take his signature cooking style very seriously by using every style as refine as he could. Like Souma, Takumi is very resourceful and able to adapt to use any ingredient to make a refine dish. Like most of the student in the academy, Takumi is prideful student over his family restaurant and his cooking style as flawless to anyone. In the same time, Takumi is also hardworking to improvised his skill and elegance of the dish, using both his vast knowledge of ingredients and strong will to do such signature dishes without failing his expectations.
Despite his prideful and boastful personalities, Takumi is the chef of honor and valor who refuse to use cheats to earn his victory. As the honorable chef, Takumi would refer a clean match so he can see a true potential of his rival. Takumi is also rather sensitive towards about losing to anyone, particularly Souma whom he see his skills as a threat of his life in the academy. He is also has an interior complex to over the fact that he must succeed no mater what and he can't let anything that stand in his way, even if he clearly know about his fears about losing. Due to that fear, Takumi constantly improving his skills and having his philosophy that winning is everything, especially when confronted bitter and strong rivals (such as Souma).

Most of Takumi's style of cooking are basically Italian. In certain cases however, Takumi managed to convert his Italian dish into another kind of regional cuisine with his vast knowledge of the food and cooking method, along with his unique style. Due to that advantage, Takumi could replace any of his Italian cuisine ingredients as the alternative way to create any style of cuisine he wishes to create the non-Italian cuisine. Thanks to his past kitchen experience and rigid training under his family restaurant, Takumi mastered almost any cooking tools such as Mezzaluna, a two handle cooking knife which is used by the professional Italian chefs, with incredible speed to make the cutting neat as the main art of his cooking method.

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