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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."
Funny, its going to cost millions of dollars to put plants up there, millions of dollars to put water up there (unless there really _is_ water on Mars and they aren't just lying to us), and millions of dollars to put the astronauts up there. All just to do some long distance vegetable growing. Whats wrong with our earth grown vegetables? People make a living off that. But its going to take 300 people's yearly sallary in taxes to do this. If they would put this much money towards getting pestecides removed from our own vegetables...now that would be something. How are these plants going to survive the radiation on the way?