Rosamund Zeph's restaurant is famous for serving dishes with fresh fruit and vegetables, unlike the artificial powders and potions and 3D-printed replica food people usually eat in the twenty-third century. When Rosamund gets hold of a real, fresh egg for one of her kitchen experiments, it seems to her and her robot assistants like an especially exciting find.
 
But Rosamund and her robots aren't prepared for how exciting it will be. Now, Rosamund has a bigger problewm than cooking the perfect souffle: a giant chicken-shaped problem.