Coordinate term: piton

Some recipes are aspirationally insane — fried chicken and andouille gumbo, or “game day” choucroute with sausage, tasso and duck confit — while others I simply aspire to make, like a fried oyster and bacon sandwich (bacon recipe included), and Link’s outstanding boudin, which he also uses as a heart-stopping beignet filling.

Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more pulp than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).

the assize of bread and other provisions