Food in the Air and Space

by Richard Foss

  10. Stanley Ziemba, “United Decides to Sell Its Flight Kitchens,” Chicago Tribune, Business section, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-02-18/business/9303181454_1_flight-kitchens-united-airlines-dobbs-international-services.

  11. Gordon Bethune interview by Evan Smith, Texas Monthly, December 2004, http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/gordon-bethune-0.

  12. Greg Brenneman, “Right Away and All At Once: How We Saved Continental,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 1998, http://hbr.org/1998/09/right-away-and-all-at-once-how-we-saved-continental/ar/4.

  13. Company reports; “Continental Is Dropping Lite Service,” New York Times, April 14, 1995, www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/business/company-reports-continental-is-dropping-lite-service.html.

  14. Mark Tran, “The Airline Industry Slump,” Guardian, September 20, 2001, www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/20/qanda.theairlineindustry.

  15. “Airlines Experiment with Selling Food,” unattributed article, Gainesville Sun, January 19, 2003 (p. 6D).

  16. Interview in Roads and Kingdoms, September 13, 2013, http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2013/the-fare-up-there/.

  17. Jason Kessler, “I’m Sick of Stinky Food on Airplanes,” Bon Appetit, August 13, 2012, www.bonappetit.com/columns/nitpicker-columns/article/i-m-sick-of-stinky-food-on-airplanes.

  18. Posting on http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-mileage-plus-pre-merger-closed-posting/646075-no-pretzels-flights-less-than-2-hrs-merged-threads.html, dated January 10, 2007.

  19. Robert Fenner, “United Continental CEO Smisek Sees ‘Significant Progress’ in Integration,” Bloomberg News, December 13, 2010.

  20. Jurgen Brauer and Paul Dunne, “Terrorism, War, and Global Air Traffic,” in Economics of Peace and Security Journal 7, no. 1 (2012): 22.

  21. Magnus Smauch, EU Law on State Aid to Airlines: Law, Economics, and Policy (Lexxion, 2012), 349–52.

  22. Charles Starmer-Smith, “How to Complain to an Airline,” Daily Telegraph, January 28, 2009, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/travel/charlesstarmer-smith/8208627/How_to_complain_to_an_airline/.

  23. Gulliver column, bylined “M. R.,” Economist, May 1, 2013, http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/05/flight-meals.

  24. Jack Nicas, “The Long, Slow Death of the First Class Seat,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444097904577535280680475986.

  Chapter 19

  1. NASA Food History page, http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/food-history.html.

  2. Nanette Gallant, “Subsistence in Space,” on US Army Quartermaster Foundation website at http://qmfound.com/subsistence_in_space.htm.

  3. “Glenn Had Space Snack by Tube; Food Squeezed Via Helmet Hole,” New York Times, February 21, 1962 (p. 24).

  4. Lev Lebedev, “Soviet Space Research History,” Space World, November 1974, p. 40.

  5. “Out in Space Table Manners Up for Grabs,” Los Angeles Times, December 21, 1964 (p. D18).

  6. “Mercury MA-9” article in Encyclopedia Astronautica, http://astronautix.com/flights/merryma9.htm.

  7. “Astronaut’s Breakfast,” Newsweek, April 15, 1963 (p. 63).

  8. “Way Sought to Grow Food From Leftovers,” Associated Press, Washington Post, January 29, 1963 (p. A9). Note: There was an error in the WP article—though the first attempt to regenerate cloned animal tissue was in the 1940s, the Nobel Prize for doing so was not awarded until 1954.

  9. Seen at eufic.org section on food technology, http://www.eufic.org/article/en/food-technology/food-processing/artid/Freeze-drying-value-quality-products/.

  10. Frederic C. Appel, “Food Is Problem for Astronauts,” New York Times, June 6, 1965 (p. 70).

  11. Jane Levi, “An Extraterrestrial Sandwich: The Perils of Food in Space,” Endeavour, 34, no. 1 (March 2010), 7.

  12. “Out in Space Table Manners Up for Grabs,” Los Angeles Times, December 21, 1964 (p. D18).

  13. Washington Post, March 26, 1965.

  14. Wolfie’s had some experience with food in flight—the restaurant had catered Northeast Airlines flights from Miami to New York in the 1960s.

  Chapter 20

  1. Per e-mail from Russian food historian Anya von Bremzen, April 8, 2014.

  2. Mark Memmott, “Now He Tells Us: Tang Sucks, Says Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin,” article on NPR’s “The Two Way,” June 13, 2013, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/13/191271824/now-he-tells-us-tang-sucks-says-apollo-11s-buzz-aldrin.

  3. James Hagerty, NASA Spinoff (Diane Publishing, 1994), 83.

  4. Review and short history is available at http://www.icecreamnation.org/2013/04/space-ice-cream/.

  5. There is a very good history of Space Food Sticks and pictures of old ads and packaging at http://spacefoodsticks.com/pres.html.

  Chapter 21

  1. Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History (Routledge, 2005), 929.

  2. “No Place for Gourmets,” New York Times, October 13, 1968 (p. 74).

  3. “Astronauts Assert Their Food Is Too Plentiful and Too Sweet,” New York Times, October 14, 1968 (p. 39).

  4. Ibid.

  5. “Whirlpool Announces Lunar Fare: Local Industry Prepared Food for Apollo 11,” News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, MI), June 30, 1969 (p. 3).

  6. Sandra Blakelee, “Real Sandwiches Please Spacemen,” New York Times, May 21, 1969 (p. 20).

  7. Vasily Dupik, “The Soviet Space Man’s Menu,” Space World, December 1971 (p. 42–43).

  8. “Birthday Party Is Held in Space,” New York Times, June 20, 1971 (p. 29).

  9. Nicholas C. Chriss, “Young Finds Potassium Too Rich in Burps,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1972 (p. J12).

  10. Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History (Routledge, 2005), 930.

  11. From NASA Food History page at http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/food-history.html.

  12. From Two Sides of the Moon—Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by David Scott and Alexei Leonov (St. Martin’s Press, 2004). Quote seen on the Food Timeline Library website at http://foodtimeline.org/spacefood.html.

  13. Brian Harvey, Europe’s Space Programme (Springer, 2003), 252.

  14. Alan Boyle, “Alcohol in Space? Da!” NBC News, October 14, 2010, http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/10/14/5291711-alcohol-in-space-da.

  Chapter 22

  1. I have found no good pictures of cooking taking place in a flying boat galley, but for submarines see “Pig Boats, Fleet Boats, and Mystery Meat,” by Philip Rutherford, originally in Undersea Warfare magazine, http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_46/pig_boats.html.

  2. Trudy Bell, “Preventing Sick Spaceships,” http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/11may_locad3/.

  3. See Stress Challenges and Immunity in Space, by Alexander Chouker (Springer, 2011), 301–3.

  4. Trudy Bell, “Preventing Sick Spaceships,” Science.NASA.gov website.

  5. Robert Reinhold, “Dining a la Carte in the Space Shuttle, with a Choice of Entrees,” New York Times, January 16, 1985 (p. C1).

  Chapter 23

  1. Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History (Routledge, 2005), 930.

  2. NASA food education page at http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/fft_halloffame.asp.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Robert Reinhold, “Dining a la Carte in the Space Shuttle, with a Choice of Entrees,” New York Times, January 16, 1985 (p. C1).

  5. Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History (Routledge, 2005), 930.

  6. Robert Reinhold, “Dining a la Carte in the Space Shuttle, with a Choice of Entrees,” New York Times, January 16, 1985 (p. C1).

  7. “After Italian Feast, Italian Astronaut Skips Spaghetti,” unattributed article, Digital Journal 31 (October 2007
). Online at http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/244462.

  8. “Astronauts Drink Recycled Urine, and Celebrate,” unattributed story from SPACE.com, May 20, 2009. Online at http://www.space.com/6733-astronauts-drink-recycled-urine-celebrate.html.

  9. Jane Levi, “Conviviality in Microgravity,” Moving Worlds: Food, Culture, and Community 6, no. 2 (May 2007): 10.

  10. Ibid.

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