Yukihira, Souma

幸平創真

He is the son of Jouichirou Yukihira and, until it closed, worked at his father's restaurant, Restaurant Yukihira. As one of the main protagonists in the manga, Souma fights his odds in the elite school to become the best chef in the world, despite strong background discrimination within his academy. He is currently a student at Tootsuki Culinary Academy and a resident of Polar Star Dormitory.
Souma is a rather energetic young man who has a constant drive to advance his cooking, mostly due to his rivalry with his father. Because of this drive, Souma is willing to try odd things with food, including "Grilled Squid Tentacles Dressed in Peanut Butter," though these dishes usually do not go over too well. It is because of Souma's will to move forward that his dishes are often considered creative and innovative by some peers and lecturers, leading to his rivalry with all the students in the Tootsuki Culinary Academy. Through all this, Souma maintains a laid-back attitude towards just about everything but cooking.
Souma can cook many different foods in many different styles, though he prefers what he calls "Yukihira Style," which is the cooking style he learned from his father. Souma shows an immense capability for cooking and a special aptitude for learning from his mistakes and improvising through that process. It is due to his creativity and resourcefulness that Souma is able to create the same dishes using different cooking methods that would yield even better results. Unlike most students who used lavish ingredients, Souma did not care about the class of the ingredients; he claimed that expensive ingredients, classy backgrounds, nor fancy techniques made the food better, but rather it was the wise usage and alternatives that made the food interesting, and the customer's satisfaction with the food that mattered. Furthermore, he also claimed that undefeated food that was just regal in looks and taste made him bored, which would cause the chef to stop improving their dishes. To eliminate such boredom, Souma continued to search for different styles of cooking around the world in order to improve his cooking skills.