Emeril Lagasse to journey to outer space

by Joe DiStefano, Posted Aug 4th 2006 @ 6:04PM

No, the rotund New Orleans-inflected celebrity chef will not be rocketing beyond the earth's atmosphere, but his food will.

Next week astronauts on the International Space Station will dine on a menu that Lagasse began crafting more than 18 months ago. The chef will chat with the astronauts next Thursday as they chow down on Mardi Gras Jambalaya, kicked up mashed potatoes with bacon, green beans with garlic, rice pudding, and mixed fruit. UPI's press release notes without a hint of irony that Lagasse is the first star chef to develop recipes served in outer space. It seems that's not entirely true. Alain Ducasse, one of haute cuisine's most successful chefs, has been working with the European Space Agency to give astronauts a taste of fine dining.

Perhaps we can look forward to freeze-dried meals from chefs coming to science museums sometime in the future. God knows they have to be better than Astronaut Ice Cream.

Source

Filed Under: Science, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: Alain Ducasse, AlainDucasse, america, celebrity chef, CelebrityChef, Emeril, Emeril Lagasse, EmerilLagasse, European Space Agency, EuropeanSpaceAgency, fruit, grains, haute cuisine, HauteCuisine, International Space Station, InternationalSpaceStation, Lagasse, NASA, New Orleans, NewOrleans, oddities, outer space, OuterSpace, shellfish, vegetables