The Last Recipe of the Star-Catchers:

The galaxy is fading. A cosmic malaise, the Blandening, has stolen the spice of life, leaving planets desolate and gray, their inhabitants listless and dull. The legendary Star-Catchers, culinary sorcerers who once wielded starlight to create cosmic spices, are gone, their legacy a whisper of a universe bursting with flavor.  
Raequon Grieve, a disgraced spice smuggler haunted by betrayal, scavenges for increasingly bland ingredients in a world drained of color.   A tattered fragment of the mythical Last Recipe, rumored to hold the power to restore taste and banish the Blandening, offers a flicker of hope in the encroaching gray.   Joined by Skiv, a sentient, sarcastic cooking cauldron salvaged from a derelict spaceship, and Elara Thorne, a spice-hunting botanist driven by vengeance for her flavorless home world, Raequon embarks on a desperate quest across the galaxy.
Their journey is a culinary odyssey fraught with peril. They face the Dust Eaters, a nomadic tribe sustained by flavorless minerals, in a duel to reawaken their atrophied senses. They navigate the bustling spaceport of Starfall Junction, where whispers of the Bland Brigade, a zealous cult determined to eradicate all taste, add a chilling dimension to their mission.   Within the labyrinthine shelves of the hidden Culinary Library of Eldoria, they uncover the Star-Catchers' secrets and the true nature of the Blandening-a cosmic imbalance, a fading of the very stars themselves.
As they gather the fragmented pieces of the Last Recipe, Raequon confronts his own shadowed past, discovering his former mentor's tragic role in the galaxy's plight.   In the Whispering Nebula, they must decipher the language of sentient spices to earn the final fragment.   Their quest culminates in the Celestial Kitchen, a realm woven from starlight and spice, where Raequon must prepare the Last Recipe, a dish with the power to reignite the dying stars. But the Bland Brigade, led by a figure shrouded in mystery, awaits, ready to extinguish the last flicker of flavor forever.
In a breathtaking finale, Raequon must not only restore taste to the galaxy but also confront the ghosts of his past and choose between vengeance and redemption.   The fate of the universe hangs in the balance, resting on the power of a single, extraordinary recipe.