QUESTION:
What do you eat in Antarctica? Can you get pizza? Do you catch any of
your own food in the ocean?

        From, Steve O.,  Fifth Grader at Centerpoint in White
        Bear Lake, Mn., Mr. Kent Peterson's class. 


ANSWER from Mary Lenox, ASA, Administrative Coordinator
            Palmer Station, Antarctica
            Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:57:08 -0500

Hi, Steve! 
 
I am from Minneapolis so I know you live in a very pretty place.  I 
look forward to being there this summer.

We eat pretty much the same things that you do.  We have two cooks 
that cook three meals a day except on Sundays.  On Sundays we either 
cook for ourselves, eat leftovers, or sometimes volunteers cook for 
the community. 

So for breakfast we might have pancakes, eggs, french toast, cereal, 
oatmeal, sweet rolls or breakfast burritos.  For lunch we often have 
soup, sandwiches, hamburgers and vegie burgers for those of us 
who don't eat meat, quiche, Mexican food, or many other things.  For 
dinner we often have steak, roast, pork chops, potatos, corn, peas, 
some other vegetable, a lettuce salad if we have fresh ingredients 
available, a vegetarian entree, fresh bread and dessert.  Sometimes 
the cooks get creative and cook East Indian food or Thai or Chinese 
food, or make sushi.  Yum!  Pizza night is another big favorite around 
here.  We are really well fed!

The only food I have had that was caught in this area is a couple of 
types of fish.  The scientists were using lots of different parts of 
the fish for their research, but not the filets.  The scientists 
prepared a fish dinner for us one Sunday and it was really good.  

Cheers,
Mary Lenox