Claiming my feed at feedster
June 19, 2005
No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster
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Sometimes I’m irreverent and I take the easy way out. Here’s how…
June 15, 2005
Granitas shown clockwise from 10 ‘o clock; duoi uoi nuoc hot e (let’s just call this, banana and acceptably gelatinous seed drink), ice coffee, green tea tofu, lychee soda, passion fruit&juniper berry&ume boshi, mango tofu. Center; guava disk.
The motivation behind this granita sampler was the desire to make some recipes that involved little more than ripping open a can of Chinese soft-drink, freezing the contents for two and a half hours and then giving it a good scratchin’.
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Space food
June 14, 2005
(image courtesy of ESA Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Alain Ducasse)
A former colleague of mine, aerospace engineer Alexander van Dijk, sent me this link about chef Ducasse and his staff developing food for manned missions into space. Check out the space food experiments from the directorate of human spaceflight right here. The article talks about aiming to produce 40% of the food locally for astronauts on long term missions. The nine basic ingredients that ESA plans to grow on other planets are: rice, onions, tomatoes, soya, potatoes, lettuce, spinach, wheat and spirulina, a blue-green algae, very rich in protein (65% by weight), calcium, carbohydrates, lipids and various vitamins.
Although I love to develop recipes based upon a highly restricted diet as much as the next guy, I really miss seeing bean and seed sprouts in the descriptions Ducasse experiments. it’s so easy to do and you have within 4 days food healthier than when you just had a hill of beans.
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