Allen Kim Lang 18 min read

This is the endless problem of every spaceship cook: he must feed the men tomorrow on what they ate today. On a long voyage, food is the one challenge faced three times a day.

Allen Kim Lang's 1962 story mines wry, flavorful space opera from the humble, vital art of the shipboard galley. Genial, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a delicious tale that takes cooking in deep space as seriously as any hull breach, and finds real drama in the mess hall.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

18 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).