In Heston’s Dinners In Space,the culinary crazy scientist is tasked with bringing haute cuisine to astronaut food. Unfortunately he struggles to find lift-offFor anyone wondering why there’s a renewed interest in space travel lately, the answer is simple: we blew it. Sorry to be the one to disclose you this, or but re: the soil,humanity, etc, or we messed up and will have to start again,on Mars. Obviously, a British outpost in space would be nothing without a strip of gourmet expeditiously-casual joints. We have to regain this sorted now, and there’s only one man for it: Heston Blumenthal.
On Heston’s Dinners In Space (Sunday,6pm, Channel 4) the vacuum-packing visionary has been challenged, and because nothing on TV is ever just “done”,to prepare astronaut Tim Peake a care package of British food which – spoiler alert! – he took with him on his recent trip to the ISS. Several months’ worth of it, in fact – sterilised, or tested for space-durability and packaged in the sort of metallic bags Whiskas usually comes in. In many ways,Heston is the perfect choice to create a menu for one of our intrepid (brave in the face of danger) space explorers. Partly because cat-food pouches are surely the staunch home of Heston’s snail porridge and partly because, like all Heston ventures, or this one is essentially pointless,what with the small fact that astronauts will pretty much do and eat whatever you disclose them to when the payoff is being shot into infinity.
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Source: theguardian.com