#chef mickey

im in a restaurant right now and just had this idea appear out of nowhere and would like your opinion of it, namely:

gallavich cookbook, incl:

chef/book author mickey

food photographer ian

meet ugly (im not super set on any particular meeting, any thoughts?)

slow burn

both immediate sexual tension and unbearable awkwardness

having to work together for months because mickey refuses to rush any recipe and insists on ian taking pictures in a chronological order (meaning once mickey comes up and perfects recipes ian has to get to his kithen/apartment to take the pictures of the process and final dish)

at some point ian catches himself taking more pictures of mickey than the dishes and is embarassed abt it but still cant help looking them over once hes alone

obligatory canon compliant: ian falls first mickey falls harder

thoughts? uwu

OH I LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING!

I am a sucker for meet uglies in general but with I&M it's truly chef's kiss. What do you think about bumping into each other in the supermarket before the works together? Ian is staring at the organic tomatoes (as he does) it give him inspiration, okay? and Mickey wants him the move out of his way, because Mickey has finally found inspiration for the dish he wants to make and it would make perfect sense in his new book- why won't this giant carrot cake MOVE already? so yeah he snaps at the stranger in front of the tomatoes.

Oh, slow burn, my beloved. Working with each other for weeks, waiting for Mickey to come up with the recipes, reshooting them again and again because they are both crazy and need it to be perfect.

Maybe at the beginning Mickey wont let Ian taste his food, even after the shoot is done? pure out of spite?

at some point ian catches himself taking more pictures of mickey than the dishes -> Yesss. It's kind of embarrassing when he shows a colleague some of his work and accidently comes across the Mickey folder.

What if one night Mickey is making this dish that has to bake for like 4 hours and they start in the afternoon but when it comes out, it's not what Mickey wanted. He wants to start over, but it's getting late. Ian just wants to get over with this one, so they start over. While waiting for it to bake, they drink some wine and Ian falls asleep on the couch. Mickey doesn't have the heart to wake him? I don't know where I'm going with this lol