posted 05-05-2022 01:47 AM               

Astronauts dish on Top Chef: Houston space food challenge

Cady Coleman, Tony Antonelli and Susan Kilrain may or may not be foodies, but they can now say they have played one on TV.

The three former NASA astronauts, who are more experts on space food than they are on fine cuisine, are guest judges on the next episode of Top Chef. In "Dinner in Zero Gravity," which premieres Thursday (May 5) on Bravo, Coleman, Antonelli and Kilrain meet up with the six remaining "cheftestants" at Space Center Houston before tasting each of the chefs' takes on a "new menu item that they would crave if they were on a multi-year mission to Mars."

posted 05-06-2022 12:30 AM               

Meringue on the moon: Top Chef winning dish to fly on NASA mission

Buddha Lo's pavlova will someday travel "miles and miles" on a NASA mission.

Lo, a cheftestant on the Bravo cooking competition "Top Chef: Houston," won the show's space food challenge, qualifying his meringue-based dessert for a place on a future astronaut's menu. The chefs were challenged to create a "new menu item that they would crave if they were on a multi-year mission to Mars."