Ever since he was a child, fifteen-year-old Souma Yukihira has helped his father by working as the sous chef in the restaurant his father runs and owns. Throughout the years, Souma developed a passion for entertaining his customers with his creative, skilled, and daring culinary creations. His dream is to someday own his family's restaurant as its head chef. Yet when his father suddenly decides to close the restaurant to test his cooking abilities in restaurants around the world, he sends Souma to Tootsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only 10 percent of the students graduate. The institution is famous for its "Shokugeki" or "food wars," where students face off in intense, high-stakes cooking showdowns. As Souma and his new schoolmates struggle to survive the extreme lifestyle of Tootsuki, more and greater challenges await him, putting his years of learning under his father to the test.

青年佩德罗闯进了一个原本平静的没落家族，他狂热地爱上了家族中最聪明能干的小女儿蒂塔。但这个家族有一条规矩，最小的女儿要侍候母亲直至老人归天。此前不得出嫁。万般无奈之下，佩德罗娶了蒂塔的大姐为妻。为的就是有机会接近蒂塔。蒂塔伤心透顶，但母命难违，她唯有将满腔的热情融化在食物中，用无声的语言传递自己的喜怒哀乐。 在姐姐的婚礼上，夹杂泪水的糕饼让所有人怀念起失落的爱，欢庆的场面顿时悲鸣一片；玫瑰花瓣鹌鹑引得食客心里翻江倒海，放纵的欲念油然而生；辣烧火鸡则让每个人都亢奋莫名。不曾有过的欢笑和喜悦溢于言表；还有那治愈沉默症的神奇的牛尾汤、引得众人隋欲大爆发的核桃酱辣椒、因为加入大量的爱而美味无比的巧克力饮料……随着季节的变化与烹饪内容的更迭，一道道菜肴呈现蒂塔爱欲痴嗔的情绪起伏，由此铺展开的情节使小说成为绚烂的传奇。 之后的几十年，蒂塔经历了用自己的处女乳汁哺育过的外甥的死亡，经历了二姐奇异大胆的婚恋，经历了与母亲生死不绝的对抗，经历了大姐的敌意与内心的愧疚，直到外甥女举行婚礼那天，才得以冲破一切阻碍与佩德罗结合在一起。可原本年轻的容貌已不复当年，他们的生命之火已经燃尽……