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TV Chef Emeril Lagasse’s Recipes Used by NASA in Space - Yum!
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The taste of space
Posted: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:31 PM by Alan Boyle
Categories: Space, TV
NASA
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams checks out a food pouch in the international space
station's galley. Williams and his crewmates, Russia's Pavel Vinogradov and
Germany's Thomas Reiter, will put jambalaya to a taste test next week.
Gourmet cuisine and space food may sound like mutually exclusive terms, but when NASA whipped up some jambalaya based on TV chef Emeril Lagasse’s recipe and freeze-dried it for a space station tasting, even Emeril’s team had to admit that the result was ... surprisingly good.
"I'm a little biased," said Karen Katz, executive producer for "Emeril Live" on the Food Network, "but I must say we were very pleasantly surprised when we tasted Emeril's food in that freeze-dried form."
Yes, this may be the 21st century, but NASA still has to freeze-dry a lot of the food it sends to the international space station, even the "Kicked Up Bacon Cheese Mashed Potatoes" from Emeril's recipe book. The space station's astronauts will be putting the results to a televised taste test next Thursday - but the space food manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Vickie Kloeris, is already pretty sure the meal will get four stars.
"Our team looked at the recipes to decide which ones would freeze-dry the best and basically ran a test batch of these products, and they were quite successful," she told me today.
Recipes and story continued at link.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archi...8/04/1753.aspx
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I've always liked freeze dried food. whenever I see it in a store, I usually buy at least one.
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Originally Posted by hickey
I've always liked freeze dried food. whenever I see it in a store, I usually buy at least one.
Me too. There's 'magic' & fun to it. And it tastes better than food preserved in other ways.
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Originally Posted by hickey
I've always liked freeze dried food. whenever I see it in a store, I usually buy at least one.
freeze dried neopolitn ice cream is the best ice cream
Dippin' Dots are good too 
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dippin' dots are brilliant, I don't know how people coped without them.
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