Human beings have been working in space for many decades but to date no meal ever eaten there has been fully prepared in space. For all this time the astronaut has been limited to a diet consisting of, essentially, high-tech variations of army rations or TV dinners. While this might be adequate for the short missions and simple frontier outposts of contemporary space activity, true habitation in space will bring with it a need for comprehensive food preparation as well as production and result in the cultivation of a unique cuisine. This is something that has largely gone unconsidered by space scientists, advocates, and visionaries –not even in the realm of science fiction, outside the contexts of fanciful dishes of alien cultures. For the most part, cooking and dining in space has been li