Stella’s best friend Mandira is missing. It is fifty years since the Dying Out and the last of the great food wars. Now the last multinational, AgroGlobal, provides only tubes of goo called ‘Newtri’ and in a world empty of real food the most popular TV show is ‘Masterchef’. To find their ingredients contestants in this speculative version of the competition must travel back in time, which is where Mandira has gone missing.