'Haute Cuisine' on Mars

Roland Piquepaille writes "If you're lucky enough to be a crew member of one of the next European Space Agency (ESA) long-term missions, you will have the choice between eleven new delicious recipes, such as 'martian bread and green tomato jam' or 'potato and tomato mille-feuilles' when it's time for dinner. In 'Ready for dinner on Mars?,' ESA says that these recipes will use fresh ingredients grown in greenhouses built on Mars colonies or other planets. The future astronauts -- should I write 'farmonauts'? -- will grow potatoes, onions, rice, soya or lettuce. And it's interesting to note that the new menus were elaborated with the help of Alain Ducasse, the French chef who has almost as many stars in the 'Guide Michelin' as there are planets in our Solar system. This overview contains more details and references about eating in space."

Comments

Just add water

[hydroxy]

Unfortunetly, all plants grown on Mars will still be freeze-dried before eaten.

"Midichlorian stew again?"

[Junior J. Junior III]

"I HATE midichlorian stew!"

"Shut up and eat, kid. You want to grow up to be big and strong like your father, don't you?"

Yum. Martian food.

[AtariAmarok]

Once you pick the antennas off, and drain all the green ichor, the stuff's pretty good! Looking forward to the first Martian fast food restaurant to open "Barsoom King", with its slogan "Take me to your eater!"

should I write 'farmonauts'?

[hugerobot]

-- should I write 'farmonauts'? -- No... you should not. Some things can not be un-read.

Not a "Freedom Fry" thing, but...

[pla]

And it's interesting to note that the new menus were elaborated with the help of Alain Ducasse, the French chef

No specific offense to the French intended, but as a vegetarian, I can think of much better choices to have designed the menu (not to mention, not everyone likes real French-style food).

Indian food, for example, has a truly huge variation of veggie-only dishes, as does Spanish (though on that, I'll admit, my experience with it involves mostly South-American-Spanish, not Southern-Europe-Spanish food). Greek has a decent selection as well, and you replace the lamb with falafel for most of the rest.

But French? The French have a reputation for taking perfectly good, otherwise healthy and veggie safe foods, and drenching them in lard. Wrapping them in thinly sliced meat. Stuffing them with unnameable mollusks and cephalopods.

Not the best choice, IMO.

Oh nos!!!1!

[aftk2]

'martian bread and green tomato jam'

But the book isn't named How to Cook For Humans on Mars, it's named How to Cook Humans on Mars!!