"Oh! I cook a little bit of everything," she says, glad that there is this shared interest here. "I'm a culinary student, and I used to have a sponsored food blog, but with so many things happening lately it's been harder and harder to keep up..."

Oh well, it's probably fine. She cleared through the last of the scheduled sponsored posts a few months ago. "I've been trying to get out of my western food comfort zone for a while, but I haven't had a lot of luck yet. I think the most interesting thing I made for someone else recently was just milchreis..."

Which she pronounces "milk-rice" because she doesn't know German, and it doesn't strike her to clarify. "What about you?"