Space Food

This presentation "Space Food" is a phenomenal introduction of a unique food culture, stemming from an assignment based on variation of cultures in the category of 'food'. All of the other students were fascinated by the totally new exposure of a little known food culture and I was impressed by the incredible amount of research and organization they put into their work. The content for a 10-minute maximum presentation is truly phenomenal. My students - Gang Pil-june and Lee Ji-yong - were pleased by the audience's response to their presentation and doubly happy when asked if I could publish their awesome slides on my international anthropology blog. They agreed and here is a very impressive slide show.

I do apologize for not including some of their explanations but couldn't take notes and give feedback and tips to the students on their presentation skills. The one piece of information that I will definitely be researching more, but due to time constraints they only touched on, was the difference in dietary allowances for astronauts/cosmonauts and people on earth. Calcium, vitamin D, but so many other factors are utilized by the body differently in space and so this would be an interesting piece of further research for me ... or someone else!

the history and early development of space food

why the development of space food was initiated

techniques in preparing space food

cultural variation in Asia countries on space food

a sample look at the development of one food: kimchi, an icon food for Koreans

a sample look at the difference between a known food
becoming changed for consumption in space