Re: Most Interesting Future Foods

On 2008-01-31 01:28:33 -0800, "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

In Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children", the refugee Howard Families are transported to a planet occupied by a telepathic race whose mastery of biology is so good they can create trees that grow fruit that tastes like steak, potatoes, ice cream, whatever you imagine you would like.

There's a lake of stew, and of whisky, too -- you can paddle all around them in a big canoe -- in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

kdb

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