See's for Coyote - coming right up!
Aug. 13th, 2009 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgIt's all about the eating.
Food giveaways aren't uncommon, especially in recession-racked America. But influenced by what is shown on TV and in the movies, the outside world doesn't expect to find them in the seemingly luxuriant Laguna Beach, with its hillside mansions and Pacific Ocean views. (So broke and who would know it California....)
Reporting from Houston - Michele Perchonok sat contemplating a shrink-wrapped brick of freeze-dried mac and cheese just outside the test kitchen at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The dish has been served countless times on the space shuttle and International Space Station. When astronauts are so far from home, this is the comfort food they crave.
But this particular entree won't be on the menu when astronauts blast off for Mars, scheduled for some time about 2030. The see-through package isn't impervious to moisture and oxygen, so the pasta could spoil before it can be eaten. Simple alternatives, like foil packages, are out of the question: They are too heavy.
"We'd like to have that solved by 2015 or 2016," said Perchonok, NASA's manager of advanced food technology. I love the look-ahead of this. Someone call Alton Brown.
Two wonderful YouTube Offerings via Twitter -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSMCRD35ch4
(Yes, I laughed too.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
Oooooh. SHINY.
And now, off to See's! Coyote WILL have his due today. Believe it.
Food giveaways aren't uncommon, especially in recession-racked America. But influenced by what is shown on TV and in the movies, the outside world doesn't expect to find them in the seemingly luxuriant Laguna Beach, with its hillside mansions and Pacific Ocean views. (So broke and who would know it California....)
Reporting from Houston - Michele Perchonok sat contemplating a shrink-wrapped brick of freeze-dried mac and cheese just outside the test kitchen at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The dish has been served countless times on the space shuttle and International Space Station. When astronauts are so far from home, this is the comfort food they crave.
But this particular entree won't be on the menu when astronauts blast off for Mars, scheduled for some time about 2030. The see-through package isn't impervious to moisture and oxygen, so the pasta could spoil before it can be eaten. Simple alternatives, like foil packages, are out of the question: They are too heavy.
"We'd like to have that solved by 2015 or 2016," said Perchonok, NASA's manager of advanced food technology. I love the look-ahead of this. Someone call Alton Brown.
Two wonderful YouTube Offerings via Twitter -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSMCRD35ch4
(Yes, I laughed too.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
Oooooh. SHINY.
And now, off to See's! Coyote WILL have his due today. Believe it.
