Posted on 06/14/2005 6:57:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis
'Martian bread and green tomato jam', 'Spirulina gnocchis' and 'Potato and tomato mille-feuilles' are three delicious recipes that two French companies have created for ESA and future space explorers to Mars and other planets.
The challenge for the chefs was to offer astronauts well-flavoured food, made with only a few ingredients that could be grown on Mars. The result was 11 tasty recipes that could be used on future ESA long-duration space missions. ADF - Alain Ducasse Formation and GEM are the two French companies that produced the recipes, and their mutual experience in creating new products and 'haute cuisine' have led to excellent results.
The menus were all based on nine main ingredients that ESA envisions could be grown in greenhouses of future colonies on Mars or other planets. The nine must comprise at least 40% of the final diet, while the remaining (up to) 60% could be additional vegetables, herbs, oil, butter, salt, pepper, sugar and other seasoning brought from Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at spacedaily.com ...
No meat?
At least there'll be plenty of spam....
OH, thank God for France!
No meat? Can't they pack a few cans of Spam? It wouldn't take a lot, just enough to furnish those trace elements.
True... I would go nuts on a space mission with no meat..
Phosphorus. That's the key. It has to be in just the right form, such as in Spam.
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