Edible Stories part 6-9

Part 6: The Icing On The Cake

This girl Maya is weirdly obsessed with icing.  It is Julia's birthday and she brings in cupcakes for her class.  Maya has her eye on the cupcake with the colorful icing and sprinkles.  Of course the birthday girl goes for that one and Maya gets stuck with the chocolate icing cupcake.  She manages to trade cupcakes with Charles, the chubby kid.  Then she trades with shy little Zoe to finally trade cupcakes with Julia, the birthday girl.  She saves her cupcake and puts it into her lunch box.  Maya goes to her room and only eats the icing off the cupcake.  She then tells her mom they got muffins at school and gives it to her.

Part 7: The Soup

Mrs. Janie Powell Joseph was called "Light before Dawn" in her language.  She is cooking soup in a big pot and looking out her trailer window.  She gets a call from Dr. Krauss who is a professor that wants to speak her native language.  She is the last native speaker of Kish'da y'k, a town in Alaska.  She is making Salmon fish soup and doesn't offer any to Dr. Krauss because she thinks he won't like it.  

Part 8: Osetra

Sorry, I didn't pay attention to this chapter!

Part 9: Creme Brûlée

Emma is deathly afraid of Creme Brûlée and is paranoid that people are trying to poison her by feeding her that.  She hears of Robert Eggle and thinks he could help her.  Since he is a food critic and has cookbooks.  She goes to him and asks him try food for her before she eats it.  Robert Eggle is the man from the first part that got stuck in a hole. 

So far none of these stories have anything to do with each other except for the character in part 1 and 9.  The characters in these stories all have a relation to food and somehow it is supposed to connect at the end.  Im confused up to this part so I guess I have to keep reading to find out what happens.