Spaghetti with a floating fork was the start of your magic career? Really...

[It's not even occurring to him that the answer is plastic.
He's considering just how tough the noodles were, or how frozen it must've been to suspend the fork in midair, instead.]

I have to say, you have pretty good taste, though! Your whole profession started because of food... It almost seems like fate that you'd meet a chef as skilled as myself, don't you think?

[He's trying, okay. Maybe if he says "I'm flirting with you", she'll get it-]