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'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."
Don't read the overview. Just more ad revenues for him. (Info on Roland Piquepaille)
Perhaps he's saving up for a trip to Mars, to enjoy the tres, tres haute cuisine.
I say we all pitch in, send him up, then cut off his web connection. Or his oxygen, whichever is easier to grab.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
What about plumbing and the rest of the infrastructure needed for maintaining this 'farm'?
Of course they'll be genetically modified. It's either that, or extremely heavily bred. There's no way we could take full-pressure domes covered in thick radiation shielding. We're going to need plants with a number of traits: high radiation resistance, the ability to take very thin atmospheres with higher-than-usual CO2 percentages, proper growth in low gravity, hydroponic or martial-soil adapted, low light, easy to grow and resistant to any diseases that may be carried (crop failure on Mars? ack!), etc, while still being nutritious.
NASA life scientists will probably do the engineering, though, at least at first.
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
French food IS extreamly unhealthy, but most food there is common peasant food which is a lot more healthy and light.
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You may be forgetting that this is coming from the ESA. Secondly, this isn't traditional French food, but is instead haute cuisine -- they are very different.
mbbac
This post may seem like flamebait, but I really do hate the French, so i feel I'm justified
What sort of argument is "I'm a bigot, so I shouldn't get modded down"? What's next - +5 for someone saying "Before you mark me as a troll, understand that I really do hate Jews"?
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
It's also the basis for most other modern cuisines.
mbbac
Most large European powers were fairly bad back then. America's actions weren't exactly to be commended, either; genocide of natives, anyone? If you're allowed discriminate about people because they weren't very nice in the past, then, erm, that more or less leaves you with the Dalai Llama. Maybe.
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Of course, all the people who acted like bastards during the colonial era are dead now.
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