Carolyn N. Kinder
Organically grown, chemical-free ingredients will be grown on Biosphere 2. The processing area in the basement is stocked with threshers for grains, mills for grinding everything from wheat to coffee, presses for extracting peanut oil and sugar, coffee and peanut roasters, huller, seed cleaners, drying ovens, and storage bins. The kitchen offers a conventional oven and electric range, a broiler arrangement with the heating element above to reduce smoke, a microwave, a cuisinart, coffee grinder, and the usual assortment of gadgets.
The ingredients in the tropical garden is of fine cuisine, from french herbs to tropical garden thyme, coriander, parsleys, lemon grass, sage, garlics, onions, cloves, nutmeg, sesame, ginger, horseradish, peppers and chiles.
There are two cacao trees in the rainforest to tap for a small supply of chocolate. A good selection of dwarf coffee trees, produces good crops of beans. For flour they’ll have rice and several types of wheat, including both pasta and bread wheats. There’s a machine to process the pasta, too.
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