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Eating in: From the Field to the Kitchen in Biosphere 2

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I've always been fascinated by the Biosphere 2 project, especially the concept of 8 people living solely on food grown in the project's half-acre agricultural area for two years. It's a pretty remarkable achievement, and that's what 'Eating In' is about. Nothing in here about the personality disputes that went on inside the biosphere; if that's your interest check out 'The Human Experiment' by biospherian Jane Poynter. This one's about FOOD.

Silverstone's book is kind of a quick look at the whole process of B2's food system, from growing the crops and raising and slaughtering the animals, to processing the food and preparing it for the table. About half the book is descriptions of the food system, and half is recipes. Some really good color pictures help give a feel for what life was like inside the biosphere,and the tremendous amount of work the biospherians had to do to stay fed. I enjoyed 'Eating In'; my only fault with it is that it's WAY too short -- I would have preferred a much more in-depth look at B2's ag system than what I found here, but I found this book great as far as it goes.

a sanitized justification for the experiment. While I enjoyed the insights gained, I was much more interested in the human interaction, foibles, fights and sex among the human participants. A long space voyage and colonization requires humans to interact with humans. How did they cope, little on this subject. Great experiment, to bad it is not being continued as this will be our outpost on the moon. David Doremus