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Caroline M. Yoachim's series of food-based fairy tales.
Bread Babies
Bread Babies Anna could make a baby out of bread, well enough to fool the fey. After forty years of practice, she could bake bread babies practically in her sleep. Over the years she'd made rye babies and wheat babies and golden-crusted sourdoughs. She had a knack for getting…
by Caroline M Yoachim
A Million Oysters For Chiyoko
Nanami was the oldest of the ama. A Japanese mermaid, the tourists called her. She dove for oysters, lobsters, sea urchins--most anything edible fetched a good price these days, seafood had become so rare. For decades, Nanami had gone diving for shellfish without any special…
by Caroline M Yoachim
Meat That Grows On Trees
Hailey had a degree in business management and a talent for witchcraft, the perfect combination to start her own company if she could come up with the right idea. Most of her best ideas had already been taken--enchanting the calories out of desserts, or trees with blood instead…
by Caroline M Yoachim
Goat Milk Cheese, Three Trillion Miles From Earth
Eljay went to the goat enclosure with two plastic jugs and a resource acquisition ticket. Four hundred goats lived in the colony ship's livestock bay, sharing space with the three sheep that had survived the visna-maedi epidemic. All three sheep were male. The geneticists that…
by Caroline M Yoachim
Sugar Showpiece Universe
The best pastry chefs in the Milky Way meet once every two hundred years at the Intergalactic Pastry Competition, sponsored by FTL Travel. We prepare desserts and candy showpieces in hopes of impressing the judges, and I'm among the favorites to win. My main competition is a…
by Caroline M Yoachim