[Maggie's blog] Fancy Fast (Space) Food

When Sara and I attended Blogworld last year, we met Erik Trinidad, the mastermind behind the food humor blog, Fancy Fast Food. Erik’s blog entries are about his experiments taking a fast food meal, and transforming it into something that looks like fancy cuisine. The three of us schemed and came up with an idea [...]

When Sara and I attended Blogworld last year, we met Erik Trinidad, the mastermind behind the food humor blog, Fancy Fast Food. Erik’s blog entries are about his experiments taking a fast food meal, and transforming it into something that looks like fancy cuisine.
The three of us schemed and came up with an idea for something we could partner together on – and that was space food!
While we don’t work on space food here at Goddard (that honor goes to Johnson Space Center in Houston), we thought we might be able to get our hands on some if we asked nicely. And indeed, Vickie Kloeris, a food scientist and NASA’s Shuttle and ISS Food Systems Manager, was kind enough to send out some samples of real space food to use for our project.
Erik and his friend Moe came down to Goddard ...