If you can read Japanese (I can't!), there's a cool graphic non-fiction book recounting the 14-year student project that developed canned mackerel in soy sauce as Japanese space food.

If you can't, give me a minute, I'm just finishing a blog post with a video about the project!

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https://japanesebooks.jp/en/children/kids/6030/

A Thai food company is providing chicken for astronauts. They made an advert.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP1YtKhWg4A

Future #astronauts may be able to recycle ♻️ their #breath into #plant food—and ultimately into fresh vegetables 🥕. Lettuce 🥗 grown on acetate could be a step toward plants that can grow in the dark by thriving on #chemical 🧪 rather than solar ☀️ energy. https://www.science.org/content/article/crops-grown-without-sunlight-could-help-feed-astronauts-bound-mars

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Two articles on NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge. The first, from Atlas Obscura, takes a look at several of the technologies developed for the challenge, including several that didn't make it into the final round.

#SpaceFood #SpacePlants

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nasa-deep-space-food-challenge

NASA's latest ISS science highlights says that the crew has been having another bash with the Zero-g oven, although it's very light on details.

I can't find any other current references to it, but the Space Station Research Explorer does list it as being assigned to Expedition 69.

I wonder what they've baked. More 🍪 ?

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/space-station-science-highlights-12jun23

Researchers have used ESA's zero-g plane (the vomit comet) to determine that yes, you can fry things in partial gravity.

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https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/the-flying-frying-carousel/

#Microorganisms 🦠 as #SpaceFood : The demand for food 🍽️ increases greatly when the duration ⏳ of #space endeavors lengthens. It will be essential that edible #microbial biomass also enables the production of #appealing 😋 foods. #3dFoodPrinting 🖨️ technologies make it possible to manufacture more complex food 🍗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33974-7

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Wanna know what the space food of the future might look like?

CNN visited Nonfiction, which is developing a “Space Culinary Lab” as part of a NASA competition (called the Deep Space Food Challenge).

It has an aeroponic garden growing fresh greens, a microwave/laser grill to make your protein more appetising, & a contraption to make space coffee creamy and foamy. Oh, & an algae vat, and a recipe for turning algae into nutritious and delicious energy bites.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/03/world/deep-space-culinary-lab-scn/index.html

Aha! When I was doing my “Meals on Mars” newsletter, I posited the idea of a “Space Spice Machine”, which would take raw spices and grind them into spice mixes for people on Mars to spice up their cooking. I thought it would be a lot more versatile than pre-packaged mixes.

Heinz have up with something very similar, allowing you to mix your perfect sauce!

#SpaceFood

https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/23/heinz-launching-machine-that-will-let-you-make-200-different-sauces-18830278/

Future-focused design firm Nonfiction has built a Space Culinary Lab the size of a large fridge with an aeroponic microgreens garden, an algae snack system, a creaming machine and a space BBQ.

#SpaceFood #SpacePlants #astrobotany

https://thehustle.co/how-to-barbecue-in-outer-space/

Gourmet #SpaceFood 🍽️ by #ChrisHadfield https://chrishadfield.ca/videos/astronaut-chris-hadfield-and-chef-david-chang-test-gourmet-space-food

Gourmet #SpaceFood 🍽️ by #ChrisHadfield https://chrishadfield.ca/videos/astronaut-chris-hadfield-and-chef-david-chang-test-gourmet-space-food

Researchers are investigating how olive oil changes in the space environment, and the benefits of adding the condiment to astronauts’ diets.

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https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/world/researchers-investigate-the-role-of-extra-virgin-olive-oil-in-astronaut-diets/119267

#SpaceFood : "You open a can of chicken 🍗 on #rice, for example, and you're not expecting any difficulties there. You start eating it and the first rice corn starts floating away from the can. OK, fine, you grab it with your other hand and try to put it back into the can. But with the hand holding the can you do an involuntary counter-movement, which sends ten or 20 rice corns into #space. They're floating away and then you give up and see the laughter 😁 of your veteran colleagues who are saying 'Just let it float.'

There's a constant suction of air in the #SpaceStation. All this debris that comes from uneducated eating 🍚 gets into the filters of the ventilators and on Saturdays, we have a clean-up day and then it's gone." https://www.dw.com/en/astronaut-reinhold-ewald-there-were-not-enough-desserts-on-board/a-43039407

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (#Nasa) administrator, Bill Nelson, and the deputy administrator, Pamela Melroy have visited the University of Adelaide, #Australia, where an international team is creating #SpaceFood and medicine.

They’ve created a “SpaceSalad” from soya beans, poppy seeds, barley, ale, peanuts, #sunflower seeds and sweet potatoes from plants chosen to be grown on Mars to provide a complete, nutritional plant-based diet for astronauts.

#SpaceDiet #PlantBased #SpaceSalad #Vegan #Astronauts #Mars

My Meals on Mars newsletter goes out one a month (or thereabouts), and is about what we might eat on Mars.

This month I'm noodling on about Cucina povera. If you subscribe you'll get future editions delivered to your inbox, but in the meantime you can read the archives online.

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https://tinyletter.com/MealsOnMars/letters/cucina-povera-on-mars

"Meals on Mars" is my free monthly newsletter exploring what we might eat on another planet.

You can read it online or subscribe to have it delivered directly to your inbox.

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I've just sent out this month's issue and you can read it here:
https://tinyletter.com/MealsOnMars/letters/welcome-to-the-martian-chatbot-caf

There was a very famous incident with a corned beef sandwich in space, but that was later - the Gemini missions - and it was John Young's idea.

It caused a bit of a furore.

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https://www.space.com/39341-john-young-smuggled-corned-beef-space.html

“According to mushroom growers and scientists designing future foods for astronauts, there are a lot of good reasons why fungi might make an important contribution to spacefaring humans' diets, from their nutritional profile to their ability to grow quickly in dark, confined spaces.”

#SpaceFood #SpaceFarming #fungi #astromycology

https://www.sciof.fi/mushrooms-space-food-expanse/