Biosphere 2 Eating in: From the Field to the Kitchen

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Eating in: From the Field to the Kitchen in Biosphere 2 - 1st Edition
ISBN 1-882428-04-8
Format Paperback
Page Count 106
Language English
Countries United States
Publisher Biosphere Press
Imprint Biosphere Press
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NEW CONDITION NEVER USED PAGES ARE TIGHT AND FLAT I PULLED BACK GENTLY TO PHOTO COPYRIGHT PAGE I PURCHASED IN 1993 AT THE BIOSPHERE

This has to be one of the strangest cookbooks ever published, Eating in: From the Field to the Kitchen in Biosphere 2 Author Sally Silverstone was the food systems manager during the much hyped and ultimately disastrous Biosphere "mission" that began in 1991
What could be more challenging than preparing 2 meals a day, every day, for eight people for two years
During her two years inside, Silverstone wrote a cookbook with the fantastic title, Eating In: From the Field to the Kitchen in Biosphere 2, which contains forty-eight recipes from the biospherian diet, along with the story of how the crew planted, grew, processed, and prepared the food on their half-acre farm In the book, the team are photographed a year into the mission, standing behind a table loaded with food, but they all look gaunt and bony By this time, the team had splintered into two opposing factions that barely spoke to each other, but they still ate together (a favorite dinner spot was the balcony overlooking the Intensive Agriculture Biome, from which you could see the sun setting over the Catalina mountains and which they dubbed the Cafe Visionaire) They stockpiled their supplies for such feasts, sacrificing livestock and saving milk, eggs, figs, and papayas, and lubricating the meals with homebrew or punch spiked with alcohol from Walford medical supplies
The rest of the time they were so famished they chewed on peanut shells, coffee grounds, and banana skins Fennel leaves became known as "biospherian chewing gum"
When the crew emerged from the experiment after two years, the project was judged by the media to be a failure