Food is Politics.

Stepping off a long-haul star freighter with one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili and the forged documents she used to flee Earth, Saraswati Kaveri is ready to take on the world.

Primus, the oldest and most powerful colony in the United Human Cooperative, is the heart of all art and culture. Primian food is the highest and most sophisticated cuisine in the galaxy. And Interstellar MegaChef, now in its twenty-fifth year of broadcasting, is the showcase and standard of that cuisine.

And this year—no matter what obstacles Primus throws in her way, whatever prejudices she encounters, however they sneer on her “Earthling” tastes and methods—Saraswati’s going to win it.