Tha Zin Frozen Food Create Task

Title Frozen

Author  Philippa Werry

Section/Subheading	Trigger Words	Summary
Living at Scott Base p26a	50 yrs, 80 people winter 10-12 scientists support staff	In the winter there are around 10 to 12 people living/ working at Scott Base. In the summer there are around 80 people living/working at Scott Base. Many of the people are either scientists or support staff who has important jobs such as chefs, kitchen hands, cleaners, mechanics and engineers.
What about the food? p26b	Takeaways Community Outside of Antarctica	At Scott Base you use a lot of heat just by keeping warm so you need good and nutritious food, But if you stay at Scott base you can’t just walk to the nearest takeaways for a snack. The chef’s can not just go to the supermarket as well and feeding the community takes a lot of organization because everything comes from outside of Antarctica, everything from ordering it and storing it has to be thought out.
Who’s in charge of feeding?p28a	Donna Weightman October New Zealand Antaractica	The most recent chef for Scott Base is Donna Weightman. New chefs arrive at the beginning of October, over the summer more people have to be fed so there is more work. Since it gets hard there are two chefs working in the kitchen, the summer chef works for four months and the winter chef stays for the whole year until the next October. Donna has worked in many places but working in Antarctica is definitely unique.
Where does the food come from? p28b	Scott Base Bulk Summer chefs	A bulk order of food is brought by a ship to Scott Base in the beginning of February, the summer chefs order what they want by plane but the flights are canceled because of the poor weather.
How is the food stored? p28c	Freezers Sprayed with oil Organised a week earlier	Even in Antarctica you still need fridges and freezers. If Donna ever wanted to open up a can Donna would need to take the can out and then a week later she can use them, so you just have to be organised for the following week. Often the problem is that the foods get cold and the eggs get special treatment they get spray with oil and because of that the eggs will last for ten months or more without going off.
What do they eat? p29	Home Special menus American Night	The meals that are created at Scott Base is just like having meals at home, Chef also arrange special menus for occasions like last sunset, midwinter dinner, christmas, first sunrise, three polar plunges. The foods that they eat are nachos, lasagna, pizza, thai curries, sushi, meatballs with spaghetti, rhubarb pudding, apple pie and icecream. Every Thursday night during winter they have a thing called “American Night” it is where people sign up on a noticeboard at their base and come down to have dinner, Usually chocolate is on the top of the list.
Working hours? p30a	7 am to 6:30pm Gym Read Watch a movie	Some of the people that work/live there gets work off on Sundays so then they can watch a movie or read or even go to the gym, The usual work hours are from 7am to 6:30pm.
Leftovers? p30b	Help them selves Kitchen Leftover	Whenever someone has their work off they can just help themselves to the kitchen, they also get to cook whatever they would like to eat or just eat the leftovers from the fridge.
Need for lots of water? p30c	Scott Base Destination 40,000 litre tanks	Fire is a hazard since the air is so dry there so that’s why Scott Base need a lot of water reserve. Water is obtained by the destination which they take the salt out of the sea water and stored in four 40,000 litre tanks.
Missing favourite foods? p32a	Chocolate, Biscuits and more In the winter there are greens hydroponics	During the summer the food staff miss the chocolate, biscuit and their favourite chips. In the winter once the veggies have run out they start to pine for things like strawberries, oranges, bananas, pineapple. In the winter they can still grow greens by using hydroponics unit to grow things like lettuce, zucchini, tomatoes, they use artificial lighting and the hydroponics unit produces enough for a small salad everyday.
Cooking in Antarctica? p32b	Passion Skills Rewarding place	Cooking is Donna’s passion, in Antarctica working at Scott Base has been the most rewarding place she’s worked at.  She can use her skills to make her own pastry, bread, pies and pasta and a lot of other good bakes.