“Sourdough” by Robin Sloan (2017)

“It would have been nutritive gel for dinner, same as always, if I had not discovered stuck to my apartment’s front door a paper menu advertising the newly expanded delivery service of a neighbourhood restaurant.”

I am categorically not a foodie. Cooking is time consuming, and it’s just fuel you need to get you through the day. If I didn’t have to eat again, I never would, although I’d make an exception for wine gums. Sourdough bread is a foodstuff that seemed to really come into itself during t...