He doesn't quite sag, but there's a subtle relaxing to his body at her proclamation of his cooking. He alternates between bites of pasta that are deceptively large, and equally large bites of bread, polishing off his first piece in about 3 bites. Somehow it doesn't look at all like he's eating as much as he is, or as fast as he is, unless you watch how quickly his plate empties. That's part of why people end up staring when he eats out, Steve thinks; they wonder how he can appear to eat 'normally' and still go through so much food so quickly.
"Despite the whole super soldier business being scientific, there were a lot of unknowns and variables the scientists thought might occur, but they weren't sure how, or to what degree. So I kinda got tossed into the deep-end of the experiment pool, there. And," he paused to reach for the pasta bowl, adding a second large helping, and another piece of bread, "I've never eaten 'normally'. I always had to watch what I ate because of my health, allergies, all that. I could never eat a 'normal-sized portion', so between those two things, I learned how to cook what I could eat." He shrugged. "And then I learned how to cook what my family and friends liked. It's..." he grinned. "It's like science, with experiments, except you get to eat the results."
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Date: 2018-03-15 06:30 am (UTC)"Despite the whole super soldier business being scientific, there were a lot of unknowns and variables the scientists thought might occur, but they weren't sure how, or to what degree. So I kinda got tossed into the deep-end of the experiment pool, there. And," he paused to reach for the pasta bowl, adding a second large helping, and another piece of bread, "I've never eaten 'normally'. I always had to watch what I ate because of my health, allergies, all that. I could never eat a 'normal-sized portion', so between those two things, I learned how to cook what I could eat." He shrugged. "And then I learned how to cook what my family and friends liked. It's..." he grinned. "It's like science, with experiments, except you get to eat the results."