Food Wars volume 3 - Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

 The cooking adventures of Soma continue in this third volume of the series.

And now, it is time for school camp, where a lot of students are expected to fall by the road.

Arriving at a luxurious mountain resort, Soma and his Polaris dorm friends learn that the courses will be judged by some of the top chefs in Japan, all graduates of the institute.  He is paired with Megumi again during the first test, where he is challenged by a pair of italian brothers who are just like him: working in the family's trattoria ever since they where young children.  With the reputation of their family restaurants on the line, they face off while trying to obtain passing grades.

Both creating gorgeous dishes, the judge declares the battle a draw, but back in the hotel they are faced with the gruesome challenge of creating 50 servings within an hour to feed some other clubs present.  One of the chefs wants to expel Megumi, but Soma steps in argueing her cause.  And this results in Soma actually challenging the chef to an official duel!

As a bonus, the book also contains Shun Saeki's debut short story, Your and My Romance Counseling, about a chance encounter flowering into a budding romance.

Now to start volume four and find out how that duel is going to go down!