Cooking Class: Science Fiction

Never trust the alien cook on a cruise ship. Especially not the StarLiner Luxury At A Discount!! line. Especially not if you've heard other guests grumbling about his rudeness and presumption--and he's a Roget. Because when a Roget is rude and presumptuous, it means he has great enough status to be so. There's a reason why Rogets have reputations as friendly, polite, deferential creatures. It's because most of the immigrants who come here to find work are quite low status. Of course, I didn't know any of this until after I got kidnapped. Okay, to be fair, I agreed that I would love to go on an "unparalleled baking adventure." I didn't realize I was going to get shanghaied off to an alien planet, to serve in an alien kitchen (no, not in a To Serve Man way--don't think I didn't worry about that on the way there, though!).


Inspiration: Some community post about a "baking adventure" - to which my thought was, now what would *really* be a baking adventure?
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Could be a good comedy series. Of course, being an alien chef has...extra...responsibilities. And the stories would have to include recipes. Oh yes, yes they would. And the recipes would have to be tasty, if you could find human equivalents to the ingredients. Think this would work as either novel or short story. I think it would work best told not entirely as slapstick, though. Deadpan humor, that's the key. Maybe.