Shokurin Temple, a temple dedicated to the art of Food Honor.
Food Honor, also known as Food Etiquette is both a customary and a philosophical practice of etiquette that teaches gratitude for ingredients and a strict method of eating in, especially difficult, but necessary ways.
Teachings
The teachings of Food Honor tends to vary between adhering groups, but the main teaching of gratitude and careful eating is a staple amongst all of them. The Gourmet Knights is an order of noble men who follow a very strict version of food etiquette not just as a daily practice, but as their religion, as well. They only consume simple ingredients and do not use or eat anything that is not natural. The people of Eco Land also follow a unique form of food etiquette in which they refrain from using technology that relies on unnatural sources, and instead rely on beasts that have the ability to supply them with all their daily needs such as electricity, water and gas, at the same time while living in harmony with these creatures. The residents of Lost Forest are a culture that also follows Food Honor as a way of life and as a necessity, as almost all their ingredients and the forest they reside in requires that its people follow this way in order to be able to eat the specially prepared ingredients without spoiling them, and traverse the illusionary forest without getting lost.
Even those who do not follow food etiquette still adhere to a form of it in order to eat Specially and Super-Specially Cooked Ingredients, which requires extremely precise and intricate handling in order to be eaten.
One of the principles of Food Honor that is taught in Shokurin Temple is to continuously show appreciation for one's meal from the bottom of their hearts. The Shokurin Temple has three level training system for Food Honor, being Basic, Mid-Class and Top-Class. To handle an ingredient as delicate as the Bubble Fruit, one needs to at least master Top-Class Food Honor as the minimum requirement. The secret technique of Food Honor is the Food Immersion, where the depth of food appreciation must be in a different depth.