Don't remind me, Piltovan food is miserable in comparison. I started cooking for myself a week after I got to the Academy, the relative aggravation in finding decent ingredients is well worth not making myself even more sick with what they think is edible.

[Rolling his eyes, Viktor stood up with a quickly repressed twinge of obvious pain and settled the crutch back under his arm.]

...I can take over an empty classroom and start first thing in the morning. There are a few ideas I can attempt to put into practice, but it will not be a flawless or simple process even if it does end up producing results. Science necessitates heavy trial and error.