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Dictionary of Food Terms in Science Fiction
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Name |
Author (Publication Date) |
Animal-tissue Culture Vat A means of producing artificial meat for food. |
H. Beam Piper (1952) |
Appetizer An amazing adjunct to science-based restaurants; a room that increases appetite with gas! |
Hugo Gernsback (1911) |
Artificial Food Food produced without soil, chemically. |
H.G. Wells (1914) |
Atomic Percolator Make coffee with radiation. |
Harl Vincent (1928) |
Automated Restaurant - food from robots Food is prepared and served entirely automatically. |
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912) |
Autonomic Food-Processing System - untouched by humans Technology allows food to be prepared untouched by human hands. |
Philip K. Dick (1964) |
Butcher Vegetable - a plant that grows steaks A plant that grows steaks (protein). |
Clifford Simak (1961) |
Carniculture Plants - grow your own meat Industrial plants that grow meat protein. |
H. Beam Piper (1961) |
Carniculture Vat - cultured meat Technology to grow meat sans animal. |
H. Beam Piper (1962) |
Chemical Production of Food Creation of food in the laboratory rather than in the field. |
Mary E. Bradley Lane (1881) |
Chicken Little - vat-grown protein Very early reference to meat grown in a vat for food. |
Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth) (1952) |
ChickieNobs Chicken meat sliced from a transgenic organism. |
Margaret Atwood (2003) |
Compact Food Pastilles (Food Pill) One small tablet is a month's worth of food. |
Edward Page Mitchell (1879) |
Concentro Concentrated synthetic food rations. |
Philip Frances Nowlan (1928) |
Crop Algae Growing algae in tanks as a source of basic food stock. |
James Blish (1957) |
Dainties - tasty spheres Flavor spheres artificially grown. |
Isaac Asimov (1988) |
Electric Menu Ordering of food is automated, without waiters. |
John Russell Fearn (1935) |
Flavor-Capsule A small pill used to turn ordinary water into a flavored beverage. |
Isaac Asimov (1952) |
Flavor-Fix Rheostat - perfect flavor every time Technology makes sure that the flavor of automatically-produced food is perfect. |
William Tenn (1951) |
Food Brick - tasty cubes Appropriate manufactured food for any species. |
Larry Niven (1970) |
Food Factory Mechanized production of food by entirely artificial means. |
Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat) (1931) |
Food Pellets Sustenance in a concentrated form. |
Anna Dodd (1887) |
Food Pills A substitute for ordinary nutrition. |
John Baker Hopkins (1885) |
Food Preparation Machine An automated device for the production of complete meals. |
David H. Keller (1933) |
Food Tablet - a pill for dinner All of your nutrients in one easy-to-swallow form factor. |
Harry Stephen Keeler (1915) |
Gourmet Space Cuisine The finest in French cuisine, in outer space. |
Jules Verne (1867) |
Home Termite Habitat Edible insects raised fresh in your own kitchen! |
David Brin (1994) |
Hydroponics Growing food without soil, typically from water saturated with nutrients. |
Maria Moravsky (1940) |
Interplanetary Restaurant An eatery and watering hole designed for use by a variety of space-faring races. |
Royal W. Heckman (1938) |
Life-Brew A non-alcoholic beverage, but similar to wine. |
George Parsons Lathrop (1897) |
Microfarm Food creation without soil. |
Isaac Asimov (1988) |
Microwavable Food - pre-packaged ready to heat-n-eat Food that is prepared specifically for use in a microwave (high-frequency) oven. |
Robert Heinlein (1948) |
Mind Control Genetically Modified Food - by little people Plants that are modified to produce specific combinations of flavors. |
Robert Heinlein (1941) |
Nutri-Matic - not quite tea A drink dispenser that scans the person to determine what might go down well. |
Douglas Adams (1979) |
Nutritious Pellets Food in pill form. |
Arthur Bird (1899) |
Oort Cloud Processor - fast food from outer space An alien ship that processes Oort cloud into food. |
Frederik Pohl (1980) |
Poison Snooper - be careful, my Duke A device that checked food and drink for poisons. |
Frank Herbert (1965) |
Pork Tree - long and lean A plant that produces an analog to animal meat. |
John Varley (1977) |
Powdered Alcohol Alcohol in non-liquid form. |
Harry Harrison (1970) |
Protine A mutant algae that can be engineered to look and taste similar to normal food. |
Philip K. Dick (1955) |
Pseudoflesh - key to boneless meat Meat (protein) that is produced apart from an animal; great steaks without rumination. |
Frank Herbert (1969) |
Quickthaw A microwave oven to heat food items quickly. |
Robert Heinlein (1950) |
Scop - the future of food? Protein grown in bacteria-filled vats. |
Bruce Sterling (1988) |
Sheep's Lozenge The nutritious portion of an entire sheep, in one pill. |
James Payn (1877) |
Sparkers - tasty watts for aliens A device used to deliver small amounts of electric current to chirpsithra, who use it for the same reason humans use alcohol. |
Larry Niven (1984) |
Spatial-Postal Card Mail from home - that hungry soldiers can also eat. |
Harry Harrison (1965) |
Spook - programmable soda A drink that comes unflavored in a container; twist the cap to add flavor. |
Jeff Noon (1998) |
Surta A base material for synthetic food. |
Leo Zagat (1932) |
Syn-Cof Synthetic coffee. |
Philip K. Dick (1964) |
Synthetic Food Edible food for humans, grown in the laboratory. |
David H. Keller (1933) |
Synthetic Food Dispenser - before the Jetsons A machine that could make whatever food you wanted from basic elements. |
John W. Campbell (1934) |
Synthetic Food Factories Food production without soil. |
Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat) (1931) |
Synthetic Milk Milk made without cows. |
Philip K. Dick (1955) |
Synthite Food - Artificially Flavored Solids Compact food for space travelers. |
John W. Campbell (1939) |
Syntho-Steak Artificially produced meat. |
Robert Heinlein (1950) |
Vat Grown Meat - no animals harmed Meat tissue for consumption, grown apart from an animal. |
William Gibson (1984) |
Vocalex Kitchen - auto eats Voice command automatic kitchen. |
William Tenn (1951) |
Water Bulb A zero-g way to enjoy water. |
Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth) (1952) |
Wine Pellets Fine wine in convenient, dried form. |
Nat Schachner (1934) |
Yeast Steak Growing custom strains of yeast as food. |
Isaac Asimov (1950) |
Yeast-Beast Machine - meat in vat A device for growing meat in a vat. |
David Brin (1994) |
Yeast-Culture Vats Using cultured yeast as the basis for food production. |
Isaac Asimov (1953) |
Related Science Fiction in the News
Drone Deliveries Instead Of Waiters In Restaurants? 'It was a smooth ovoid floating a few inches from the floor...'- H. Beam Piper, 1962. (re: H. Beam Piper, 10/19/2024 ) |
SliceIt! Why Not Teach Robots To Use Knives? 'One building now gushed forth smoke and another stench that was unmistakable.' - Anne McCaffrey, 1996. (re: Anne McCaffrey, 5/10/2024 ) |
3D Printed Cheesecake Not Quite Food Replicator Quality With each successive print, our model needed to incorporate more structural ingredients to minimize print failures (re: Various, 3/13/2023 ) |
Porcine Fat Cells For 3D-Printed Whole Pork Products 'I grabbed two Syntho-Steaks out of the freezer...' - Robert Heinlein, 1950. (re: Robert Heinlein, 11/7/2022 ) |
Microbial Protein Production More Efficient Than Crops 'It's the food situation I'm worried about...' - James Blish, 1950. (re: James Blish, 8/13/2022 ) |
NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge! What's your favorite science fictional space food? How about your favorite REAL space food? (re: Various, 2/17/2022 ) |
XROOTS eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System 'He was used to the miraculously rapid growth of plants fed with a solution of minerals, but this was too much.' - Maria Moravsky, 1940. (re: Maria Moravsky, 2/1/2022 ) |
Stellar Pizza Is A Pizza Robot That Comes To You 'No hand touched the food...' - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912 (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 12/13/2021 ) |
Rich (and Regular) People Should Stop Eating Meat, Says Bill Gates 'You can get used to the taste difference.' - Bill Gates, 2021. (re: William Gibson, 4/27/2021 ) |
Autonomous Russian Greenhouse For ISS Wheat 'We saw the gardens, flooded with artificial sunlight, planted with everything imaginable, that supplied the necessary food.' - Harley S Aldinger, 1932. (re: Harvey S. Aldinger, 4/9/2021 ) |
OK, NASA 3D Printer Of Food Not Yet Star Trek Food Synthesizer Maybe not, but we're seeing definite progress. (re: Gene Roddenberry, 9/27/2020 ) |
BlueNalu Yellowtail Might Be Your First Lab-Grown Meat Vat-grown nigiri sushi? (re: H. Beam Piper, 12/17/2019 ) |
Beijing HaiDiLao Robotic Hotpot Restaurant Now Flavored By Artificial Intelligence 'Kantos Kan led me to one of these gorgeous eating places where we were served entirely by mechanical apparatus.' - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912. (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 8/15/2019 ) |
Plants of the Future - What Should They Be Like 'He almost choked in his astonishment. Mashed potatoes and brown gravy!' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (re: Robert Heinlein, 8/13/2019 ) |
Uber Eats Pairs Cars With Drones Fresh grub? Let's hope they aren't delivering grubs. (re: Denis Villeneuve, 7/27/2019 ) |
China Develops Taste Testing Robots 'Install taste buds in the end of one tentacle...' - Anthony Boucher, 1943 (re: Anthony Boucher, 4/23/2019 ) |
Spicy Tomatoes Created With Genetic Engineering How about mashed potatoes and brown gravy? (re: Robert Heinlein, 1/11/2019 ) |
Shrimp Actually Made Of Algae Is A New Wave Food Bring in that crop algae. (re: James Blish, 1/5/2019 ) |
Nova Meat Can 3D Print Your Dinner Printing out chicken nuggets. (re: Gene Roddenberry, 12/13/2018 ) |
Farming In Space Starts With Mycorrhiza 'The inner leaves were beginning to curl faster than the outer leaves.' - Robert Heinlein, 1949. (re: Robert Heinlein, 10/14/2018 ) |
Electronic Tongues Will Rule The Kitchen 'Install taste buds in the end of one tentacle...' - Anthony Boucher, 1943 (re: Anthony Boucher, 5/21/2018 ) |
Mass Production Of In Vitro Meat From One Sample They're Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing (re: Larry Niven, 4/27/2018 ) |
Self-Driving Domino's Pizza Car Yes, but can it negotiate entry at your Burbclave? (re: Various, 1/4/2018 ) |
Mmm, Tasty Duck From A Petri Dish 'Laboratories in every city had produced synthetic food and meats, grown in large test tubes...' - David H. Keller, 1933. (re: David H. Keller, 10/20/2017 ) |
Eden-ISS, Greenhouse In Antarctica 'With this kind of light we could get the gardens going again." - Barbara Humbly, 1983. (re: Barbara Hambly, 9/12/2017 ) |
Chowbotics Salad Robot, Sally '... gorgeous eating places where we were served entirely by mechanical apparatus.' - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912. (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 3/18/2017 ) |
Tomatoes From Sun And Seawater 'Hydroponics. Gotta almost do it, if I'm going way out to Mars without much supplies.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1961. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun, 9/29/2016 ) |
In Vitro Meatballs For SciFi Spaghetti 'Large laboratories in every city had produced synthetic food and meats, grown in large test tubes..." - David H. Keller, 1933. (re: David H. Keller, 7/15/2016 ) |
7-Eleven Drone Delivers Chix Sandwich And Slurpee 'It was a smooth ovoid floating a few inches from the floor...'- H. Beam Piper, 1962. (re: H. Beam Piper, 7/5/2016 ) |
SuperMeat - Crowdfunding Pohl/Kornbluth's Chicken Little 'Chicken Little, who would be sliced and packed to feed people from Baffinland to Little America.' - Pohl and Kornbluth, 1952. (re: Pohl - Cornbluth, 7/1/2016 ) |
Martian-Grown Food Might Be Fine 'I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but I’m the best botanist on the planet.' - Andy Weir, 2014. (re: Andy Weir, 6/30/2016 ) |
3D Printing Dinner 'The food slot gave him flat reddish-brown bricks.'- Larry Niven, 1970. (re: Larry Niven, 3/11/2016 ) |
First Flower Grown In Space Is Edible Yeoman Rand, admire the flowers, please. (re: Gene Roddenberry, 1/16/2016 ) |
Nima Portable Gluten Tester '... the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers...'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert, 12/27/2015 ) |
Can Bacteria Provide Food In Space? At least the scop was improving... - Bruce Sterling, 1988. (re: Bruce Sterling, 12/16/2015 ) |
NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars Will Martian potatoes turn out to be red skins? (re: Andy Weir, 12/15/2015 ) |
Cool Chaac Ha Dew Collector Video 'The surface condenses moisture out of the air...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert, 9/6/2015 ) |
Chaac Ha Dew Collector ala Dune 'The surface condenses moisture out of the air. That moisture trickles down...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert, 8/27/2015 ) |
Underwater Balloon Gardens 'He puffed heavily as he angled around the bulbous lifezones...'- Gregory Benford, 1989. (re: Gregory Benford, 6/21/2015 ) |
Do Mutant Chickens Offer 'Maximum, Diabolical Meatiness'? 'They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too...'- Margaret Atwood, 2003. (re: Margaret Atwood, 6/3/2015 ) |
Vat-Grown Burgers Getting Cheaper 'They gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it. ' William Gibbons, 1984. (re: William Gibson, 5/24/2015 ) |
Electronic Tongue Knows Beer Better Than You 'Install taste buds in the end of one tentacle.'- Anthony Boucher, 1943. (re: Anthony Boucher, 5/22/2015 ) |
Israeli 'Food Replicator' Inspired By Star Trek Any food you like, instantly! (re: Gene Roddenberry, 5/9/2015 ) |
Ground Control Space Beer Ninkasi Brewing Co. has its own space program. I'm impressed. (re: Michael Crichton, 4/7/2015 ) |
Foodini 3D Printer ''...Food slot gave him flat reddish-brown bricks.'- Larry Niven, 1970. (re: Larry Niven, 11/20/2014 ) |
Sample The In Vitro Meat Cookbook 'I grabbed two Syntho-Steaks out of the freezer...'- Robert Heinlein, 1950. (re: Robert Heinlein, 10/14/2014 ) |
Baidu Kuaisou Dune Poison Snooper Chopsticks 'Unobtrusive inspections with... snoopers... Will it be chaumas - poison in the food?'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert, 9/12/2014 ) |
3D Printed Space Pizza For Astronauts Put those butcher knives aside, and let me save that meal! (re: Various, 8/30/2014 ) |
Mometum Machines Burgerbot 'One of these gorgeous eating places where we were served entirely by mechanical apparatus...'- Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912. (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 8/10/2014 ) |
Survival Seed Vault Low Cost Life Bank 'They existed in the Life Bank, as did virtually every plant...'- John Varley, 1977. (re: John Varley, 7/30/2014 ) |
Palcohol Powdered Alcohol - Try Or Ban? 'I had a small can of powdered alcohol disguised as tooth powder...' - Harry Harrison, 1970. (re: Harry Harrison, 7/19/2014 ) |
Remotely Operated Gardening Rover - Student's Space Agricultural Robot 'There were things growing all over the place, not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions of miles out in to space.' (re: Various, 7/7/2014 ) |
Are Human Settlements On Asteroids Possible? 'Here on Vesta... the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1953. (re: Raymond Z Gallun, 6/14/2014 ) |
3D Printed Food Served In German Nursing Homes 'The food slot gave him flat reddish-brown bricks.'- Larry Niven, 1970. (re: Larry Niven, 5/28/2014 ) |
Ooho Water Bulb (Or Blob) Replaces Horrific Plastic Bottles 'I held up my bulb of water ... visibly there was water missing.'- Pohl and Kornbluth, 1952. (re: Pohl and Kornbluth, 4/21/2014 ) |
AeroLife Inhalable Food Powder 'Now shall the brutal murdering of fellow animals and brother vegetables forever stop...'- Edward Page Mitchell, 1879. (re: James Payn, 2/1/2014 ) |
Harvest-Time On The International Space Station We will come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. (re: Gregory Benford, 1/30/2014 ) |
Haute Cuisine On International Space Station 'The gas gave sufficient heat for the culinary apparatus…'-Jules Verne, 1867. (re: Jules Verne, 12/10/2013 ) |
Pasona Office Building Is An Urban Farm To what extremes of temperature and humidity would you accede in order to be more green? (re: Pohl and Kornbluth, 8/19/2013 ) |
Plantscraper From Plantagon 'A towering eighty-story structure like the office "In-and-Out" baskets stacked up to the sky.'- Pohl and Kornbluth, 1952. (re: Pohl and Kornbluth, 8/4/2013 ) |
The Most Expensive Burger Ever Made? 'the carniculture plant where any kind of animal tissue we wanted was grown--Terran pork and beef and poultry...'- H. Beam Piper, 1962. (re: Various, 7/28/2013 ) |
Hungry? Grow Nutritious Insects At Home '...I balked when my wife served me termites.'- David Brin, 1994. (re: David Brin, 6/14/2013 ) |
Iceberg Harvesting Off Newfoundland's Coast 'Five hundred billion gallons worth of Antarctic iceberg had been towed into Santa Monica Bay.'- Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven, 6/5/2013 ) |
Never Eat Food Again - Just Soylent 'It is nourishment in the only rational form.'- Edward Page Mitchell, 1879 (re: James Payn, 3/26/2013 ) |
Space Food, Canadian Style 'The Oort cloud was made up of millions of megaton-sized servings of chow.'- Frederik Pohl, 1980. (re: Frederik Pohl, 3/13/2013 ) |
Noodle-Shaving Robot Army Invades China 'One of these gorgeous eating places where we were served entirely by mechanical apparatus...' (re: Anthony Boucher, 9/3/2012 ) |
Cocoagraph Edible Photos Like Spatial-Postal Cards 'Before Bill's startled gaze... the card was starting to swell.' (re: Harry Harrison, 8/12/2012 ) |
The KEN Diet - Eat Nothing And Love It! So, are you thinking of Jem'Hadar or Meks? (re: Jack Vance, 3/14/2012 ) |
Meat Farm Like Matrix, Daybreak And Blade - But For Chickens I think this is an idea whose time has come... more than once. (re: Various, 3/2/2012 ) |
Grow Cultured Meat In A 'Carnery' It takes from 3 to 8 pounds of nutrient to create just one pound of meat; we can do better. (re: H. Beam Piper, 2/1/2011 ) |
Kiosk Looks At You, Then Decides On Your Meal Machines will tell you what to eat, just by looking at you. (re: Douglas Adams, 1/22/2011 ) |
Prototype Lunar Greenhouse Interesting concept from the University of Arizona; Robert Heinlein went a bit further in his thinking, particularly from the standpoint of recycling. (re: Robert Heinlein, 9/19/2010 ) |
MIT's Cornucopia Digital Robotic Food Concept Digital food the modern way. In concept, at least. (re: John W. Campbell, 7/25/2010 ) |
Tempwave: Raytheon Plowshares Energy Weapon 'They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.' And their energy weapons into grape-warmers? (re: Philip K. Dick, 6/30/2010 ) |
Unilever Smile-Based Ice Cream Vending Machine Smile! You're about to get some ice cream from this face-recognition, proximity detecting, smile-measuring vending machine. (re: Douglas Adams, 6/27/2010 ) |
Petri Dish Pork Lookin' Purty Good Ah, just cast your eyes upon this tasty photomicrograph of pork-in-a-dish. (re: H. Beam Piper, 1/18/2010 ) |
Subway Outlet Will Climb To 105th Floor You're building the 105th floor of a building, and you're looking for some lunch. Oh - there's a Subway! (re: Various, 1/13/2010 ) |
Sushi In Space! And I still remember Tang fondly. But now, I can go to a nice restaurant and have a meal like the astronauts. (re: Jules Verne, 12/22/2009 ) |
Will In-Vitro Meat Change Our Lives? IVM is one of those sfnal futures that seems to be getting closer and closer. (re: H. Beam Piper, 11/18/2009 ) |
Electrolux Moléculaire 3D Food Printer This video shows a design concept that is entirely possible, based on current technology. (re: Various, 8/27/2009 ) |
Beaker Burgers From In Vitro Meat All around the world, scientists are racing to be the first to produce meat in a vat. No waste materials to be cut away. Just the burger - in a beaker. (re: Pohl and Kornbluth, 8/2/2009 ) |
Let's Pizza Robotic Pizzeria More tasty food made by robotic minions is on the way; take a look at the video to see if Let's Pizza meets your standards. (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 5/19/2009 ) |
Machine Dispenses Snacks When Economy Goes Bad This device responds to bad economic news by dispensing comfort food. Would HAL have done better to offer Dave Bowman some nice snacks rather than a stress pill? (re: Arthur, 5/4/2009 ) |
Robots Should Replace Cafeteria Ladies, Say Students School children across the US are demanding an end to fallible cafeteria ladies - and a bold future of robot chefs! With videos. (re: Anthony Boucher, 5/3/2009 ) |
Green Box 'Futuristic' Pizza Box Take a look at the video showing how to use this attractive, recyclable pizza box. But futuristic? I think Snow Crash has set the standard for the smart pizza box. (re: Neal Stephenson, 5/1/2009 ) |
On-Orbit Space Coffee Cup Of course, you'll also want to know whether or not adding sugar and/or milk affects the surface tension of your coffee. By astronaut Donald Pettit. (re: Larry Niven, 2/26/2009 ) |
Sweet Potatoes In Space Questioned By Niven Fans This apparently innocent story of research into foods that will grow in space may have an sfnal side, especially for Niven fans. (re: Larry Niven, 2/24/2009 ) |
BaR2D2 Mobile Bar Nifty DIY project by Jamie Price would also look good on Jabba's sailbarge. (re: George Lucas, 2/15/2009 ) |
Waterproof Sand Could Green A Desert Planet It won't be easy to coat each grain of sand in a desert, but hard tasks need hard ways. My legions of Fremen will be using very small brushes. (re: Stanislaw Lem, 2/5/2009 ) |
Space Beer In (Very) Limited Distribution What might have happened to that barley on board the ISS? Only thirty lucky couples will find out. (re: Various, 12/2/2008 ) |
Earth Now Needs Agricultural Worlds SF writers pondered this problem a generation ago, and came up with the answer. (re: Isaac Asimov, 11/2/2008 ) |
Terminator Seeds Deployed To Iraq Order 81 provides the authority to require Iraqi farmers to use genetically altered seeds that do not produce naturally viable offspring. (re: Jack Vance, 10/25/2008 ) |
Fictional Foodstuffs: The Snacks Of Science Fiction Does food play an important role in science fiction books and movies? I've got my list. (re: Various, 9/30/2008 ) |
Odor 'Map' May Lead To Digitized Smells Will the mystery of scent be revealed? The smell of victory is in the air. (re: Aldous Huxley, 7/30/2008 ) |
Ithaa Undersea Restaurant Review And Video I wrote an article on this unique restaurant several years ago, but I recently ran across more information. (re: Jack Vance, 7/23/2008 ) |
Space Agriculture For Long-Term Space Exploration Canadian researchers seek to find another great achievement like the Canadarm by providing sustenance to astronauts on long trips. (re: Gregory Benford, 7/17/2008 ) |
Giant Space Vegetables Now On Earth! The seeds for this monster harvest spent time - maybe too much time - in low Earth orbit. (re: Gregory Benford, 5/16/2008 ) |
In Vitro Meat Symposium - Try The Veal! European scientists are determined to get that enormous meat vat up and running; they're giving a great price per ton for vat-grown meat. (re: H. Beam Piper, 4/15/2008 ) |
InVitroMeat Foundation Nothing like meat fresh from the vat - this foundation is organizing to make it a reality. (re: H. Beam Piper, 3/24/2008 ) |
Electronic Taster Has A Nose For Coffee There are more than 1,000 different volatile chemicals that create the taste and aroma of coffee. Can a machine equal human judgement? (re: Ray Bradbury, 2/21/2008 ) |
Robot Chef Makes Octopus Balls It's time to take those robots off the assembly line, and put them to work making dinner! (re: Anthony Boucher, 2/8/2008 ) |
Automated Restaurant Uses Gravity Feed Rail System Nifty gravity feed system eliminates those pesky waiters - should you leave gravity a tip? (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 8/28/2007 ) |
Imagine The Pizzamato Here at least is a nice picture of what genetically modified food should really be like; Heinlein pictured it first, though. (re: Robert Heinlein, 8/13/2007 ) |
International Space Station To Get Japanese Take-Out The menu on the International Space Station is about to get a lot more interesting. (re: Various, 6/28/2007 ) |
Tiny Portable Biosensor Detects Contaminants In Food Frank Herbert calls it once again; finally, we're starting to get our remote-cast snoopers. (re: Frank Herbert, 5/19/2007 ) |
Sweet Wheat - No Sugar Added New development in plants means no more teaspoons full of sugar for your morning cereal. (re: Various, 12/18/2006 ) |
My Spoon Robot On Full Auto This is a great addition to the assistive technologies now available commercially. It also poses a danger to Americans. (re: Various, 12/4/2006 ) |
Space Yogurt Now Available On Earth Awesome orbital survival-of-the-fittest foodstuffs now available in Japan. (re: Various, 10/1/2006 ) |
Diet Monitors Based On Chewing Sounds Soon, it may be possible to do away with those cumbersome daily food logs or other diet monitoring aids. (re: Various, 6/19/2006 ) |
Hyperactive Bob Fast Food Management Robot Terrifying short story comes to life; everyone who works for someone else should read this story. (re: Marshall Brain, 6/16/2006 ) |
Programmable Soda - Ipifini's Choice-Enabled Packaging SF short story nails this one; and it looks like a good consumer product. (re: Jeff Noon, 3/26/2006 ) |
Cultured Meat Straight From The Vat Science fiction fans - start your grills! Two new techniques of tissue engineering may lead to affordable production of lab-grown, cultured meat for human consumption. (re: H. Beam Piper, 7/6/2005 ) |
RFID-Maki: Easy Payment Sushi In Japan, eating and automation go together like, well, like raw fish and rice. (re: Harry Harrison, 8/12/2004 ) |
Combat Feeding: Just Add Water - Any Water Soldiers in the field carry their own food; one day's supply weighs about 3.5 kilograms. However, remove the water, and it only weighs 0.4 kg. But where can you find potable water in the field? (re: Neal Stephenson, 7/21/2004 ) |
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