She had, Champloo reflected, a completely different, almost antithetical approach to cooking than the Kitchen Fist Fire Chaos Style. Nowhere was the rigid discipline and devoted training of the Kitchen Fist; he doubted her lessons in cooking had ever required her to chop 10,000 potatoes into julienne fries or tenderize a steak while blindfolded in the midst of a kitchen-knife throwing contest.

Nevertheless, she understood the essence of cooking -- that it came from the heart!

As he waited, he began peeling and slicing kiwi fruit with brisk motions of a knife.