Cakes showcasing Antarctic research data from the 2018-2019 season.
Coming September 2019.
STAY TUNED.
Photo by Johnny Chiang
BAKING ANTARCTICA IN ANTARCTICA
Working for the United States Antarctic Program has been the opportunity of a lifetime - feeding up to 1,000 science support staff on the continent's largest research base and hiking across the ice in conditions that reached negative 80 degrees with 45 mph winds.
Inspired by the original cake found preserved in the ice from polar explorer Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition, this 100+ pound loaf was a dense, rich, boozy fruitcake filled with dark chocolate (a high-caloric staple in expedition provisions) and coated in white chocolate glaze (which I was only able to use after calculating rations that had to last another eight months).
McMurdo's winter waste manager generously provided trail marker flags to line the path from the building entrance to the cake itself, and we popped champagne to bid our last-standing friends farewell before McMurdo sent off its last flight and our population dwindled to a mere 199 people.
Scott and Shackleton would have received the biggest pieces, if I'd only had the chance.
antarcticsun.usap.gov/
Inspired by the original cake found preserved in the ice from polar explorer Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition, this 100+ pound loaf was a dense, rich, boozy fruitcake filled with dark chocolate (a high-caloric staple in expedition provisions) and coated in white chocolate glaze (which I was only able to use after calculating rations that had to last another eight months).
McMurdo's winter waste manager generously provided trail marker flags to line the path from the building entrance to the cake itself, and we popped champagne to bid our last-standing friends farewell before McMurdo sent off its last flight and our population dwindled to a mere 199 people.
Scott and Shackleton would have received the biggest pieces, if I'd only had the chance.
antarcticsun.usap.gov/
