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Techdirt. Stories filed under "meals" Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us Techdirt. Stories filed under "meals"http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:00:00 PST DailyDirt: Space Food For Thought Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100907/10115910920/dailydirt-space-food-thought.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100907/10115910920/dailydirt-space-food-thought.shtml

Somewhat unexpected foods have been eaten in space -- such as sushi, smuggled communion wafers, and a secretly-stashed corned beef sandwich. Emeril Lagasse and Rachel Ray have also prepared a few recipes for space meals. [url]

About 9 months prior to a mission, NASA astronauts start picking out what they'll eat while they're up in space. Tang wasn't designed for any space program, but its powdered formula is a convenient way to store flavored beverages for spaceflights. NASA-approved beverages include coffee, tea, apple cider, orange juice and lemonade. [url]

NASA has published several fact sheets on what astronauts eat in space. Random factoid: SkyLab was apparently the only spacecraft that offered both a freezer and fridge for food storage. [url]

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20100907/10115910920 Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 PDT DailyDirt: Expensive Meals Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120423/18215818620/dailydirt-expensive-meals.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120423/18215818620/dailydirt-expensive-meals.shtml price. But if you want to show off your considerable fortunes, try serving up a few of these ingredients in your next culinary creation. (Maybe if you're a newly-minted billionaire, recently married... and have a penchant for killing your own food?)

If you like really expensive vegetables, forget white asparagus, hop shoots are where it's at. But unless they're specially cultivated, the shoots will turn green and become tough and rope-like. [url]
European white truffles go for thousands of dollars per pound, found by trained dogs (not pigs who will sometimes eat the fungus). Time to start cultivating these in a lab -- or at least a quick DNA test to confirm the species... [url]
About 150 flowers are needed to produce one gram of saffron -- and a lot of human labor. Fortunately, it doesn't take a lot to impart its flavor into foods, but avoid the fake stuff and don't buy ground saffron. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20120423/18215818620 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:00:00 PDT DailyDirt: Happier Meals on The Way Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110726/18175115270/dailydirt-happier-meals-way.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110726/18175115270/dailydirt-happier-meals-way.shtml

McD's is about to change their Happy Meals by adding some healthier snacks to them. Hmm. Does adding fries to a Healthy Meal make it a Happy Meal? [url]

Healthier salads are on the way -- replacing romaine lettuce with other varieties of greens. Not just healthier, but also more amenable to machine processing, too... [url]

Folks seem to like baby carrots a lot more than regular carrots... but not carrots cut up into little balls. And don't advertise carrots as healthy anymore. [url]

To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]