Grampp S (2023)
Publication Type: Authored book
Publication year: 2023
Publisher: Transcript-Verlag
ISBN: 9783839464793
There hardly seems to be anything less sensually appealing than space food. Space food isan indexical sign, a trace of the otherness and artificial requirements of life in space. In this 'non-sensual' form, space food is particularly attractive for the sensual representation of space missions in museums or documentaries nowadays as "a window into the 'techno-food' of the future" (Spence in this volume). I demonstrate that there is also another history of showing, imagining, and representing space food, which today has, to a large extent, vanished from popular cultural memory. During the so-called Space Race between the USA and the USSR from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially in Soviet news reports on space missions, space food was imagined as something that dissolved the categorical difference between 'natural,' fresh food and preserved, plastic-wrapped food. Mainly on a visual level, a lot of attention was paid to making food in space sensually appealing by presenting it within a home-like atmosphere.
APA:
Grampp, S. (2023). Once upon a taste in the east: A different picture tale about space food. Transcript-Verlag.
MLA:
Grampp, Sven. Once upon a taste in the east: A different picture tale about space food. Transcript-Verlag, 2023.
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