Editing Cuisine (section)

=== Space Food ===
On April 12, 1961 the USSR launched Vostok-1, the first manned spacecraft. Over the span of 108 minutes it completed a single orbit of the Earth. A big part of the mission was to find out how people handled Zero Gravity and part of that was that in flight Yuri Gagarin ate a few toothpaste tubes of beef and liver paste without problems. 

Despite some worries it turns out the Human Body is pretty adaptable and can adjust to weightlessness fairly well. Our traditional eating arrangements not so much. Pour yourself a bowl of cornflakes on the ISS and you have a 3D mess which could jam up instruments. Space food should not be something that easily break apart into crumbs. Open cups just won't do.

So far, humans have not travelled far from earth. A journey from the earth to the moon took 3 days and the ISS is only a few hours away from resupply on a return journey. A journey to Mars in the near future will likely take months either way even at an optimal orbital window. Combine that with a need to keep the mass down and keeping the air breathable over the long voyage and it becomes clear that instead of just packing up a load of rations you'd want to grow at least some food along the way. A lot of experiments have been made for hydroponic farming in space.