British-Jewish chef sends English food to space

Heston Blumenthal spent 2 years learning to make dishes that can be consumed at zero gravity, just to sweeten astronaut Tim Peake’s palate

The Times of Israel

In a culinary first, a Jewish-British celebrity chef created English dishes, including a bacon sandwich, for consumption in space.

Heston Blumenthal spent two years preparing the dishes for the English astronaut Tim Peake, who ate the bacon one on his very first day in space in December, Channel 4 revealed in “Dinner in Space” — a special program about Heston’s endeavor which aired last week.

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