DARPA, bringer of the internet. Food etherealized. What an abstraction from the normal, natural. The WWWFood Network, so to speak.

[Mark Kohut]

Chow halls and “warrior restaurants” of the future could serve deployed
troops meals made by microorganisms using water, air, electricity and
little else.

A program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called
Cornucopia aims to reduce the time, cost and complexity of delivering meals
to far-flung locations by finding ways to make nutritious foodstuffs on
site.

DARPA held a video conference Wednesday for potential research partners
interested in helping design and test mobile systems for converting oxygen,
carbon dioxide, water and electricity into microbes that would then produce
“food molecules.”

The foods would be expected to “taste good and offer complete nutrition for
military applications ranging from troops in austere locations to civilians
and troops during humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations,”
Molly Jahn, program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, said in a
statement earlier this month.