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[00:00.42] Most of the food on the space station is standard packaged fare, full of goodness, no doubt, but lacking that culinary je ne sais quoi which any self-respecting French astronaut so badly needs.

[00:11.31] But astronauts can bring with them a certain quantity of their own food.

[00:15.30] And so, Sophie Adenot has teamed up with the multi-Michelin-starred Anne-Sophie Pic to draw up a list of items to help her through those long, dawnless days in weight-free orbit.

[00:31.50] One day over the Atlantic, it could be chicken with Malagasy wild pepper, tonka beans and a creamy polenta.

[00:33.62] The next day, over the Pacific, pulled beef with black garlic and smoked vanilla.

[00:36.55] And for dessert – how about a chocolate cream with crushed hazelnut?

[00:40.80] Sophie Adenot says she will share the haute cuisine with her colleagues on board.

[00:45.05] It is, after all, an important moment.

[00:47.44] French gastronomic culture becoming, for the first time, extraterrestrial.