He nodded. "I've been learning how to cook for years..." he told her, thinking. "But I'd never tried that recipe..."

He went silent for a while, wondering how he'd actually managed to get away with teaching himself to cook, since he was from a rich, snobby family.

He then had a thought. "Were you taught to cook at all?" he asked curiously, since Lexia was, after all, a slave. He wondered what kind of training the girl had to go through, if any at all.