Space food a la carte - BBC

Space food a la carte

By Caroline Wyatt
BBC News, Paris

Sunday, 25 December 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4558952.stm

A leading French chef has been asked to help create space food for
astronauts on long-term voyages in space.

Alain Ducasse already has several Michelin stars, but now he is
determined to conquer diners further afield.

France may be suffering from a period of gloomy introspection, but when
it comes to food, there is no false modesty: this nation still believes
it is the best in the world.

And now, perhaps, beyond. Mr Ducasse's food academy has been asked by
the European Space Agency (Esa) to help create a menu for Europe's
astronauts that will not just nourish their bodies, but also their
spirits - helping men and women on long-term missions, for example to
Mars, to survive for 1,000 days in space.

Man cannot live on bread alone, says the space agency, so a bit of
sun-dried tomato and soya rice pudding wouldn't go amiss.

The food researchers are focusing on eight or nine main ingredients,
including onions, potatoes, rice, lettuce and spinach, which could be
grown aboard a spacecraft, saving on storage space for the journey.

The chefs working on the project say the idea is to create a meal that
reminds the astronauts of home - while remaining a menu that could be
described as out of this world.

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