So, what do you have to do in order to dine on a menu from Ducasse? Working aboard the International Space Station is perhaps an extreme example. The three Russian Cosmonauts and two NASA Astronauts were joined this week by former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi, the latest "space tourist" to pay more than twenty million dollars for a seat on a Russian Soyuz craft bound for the orbiting outpost.

Simonyi arranged through his friend Martha Stewart for Ducasse to prepare a portable dinner to be carried up on the Soyuz to celebrate Cosmonaut’s Day. April 12^th is observed in Russia as the day Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth. Carefully packed aboard the Soyuz was enough quail roasted with madrian wine, duck breast confit with capers, and semolina cake with dried apricots for six. Before you ask, no wine by the glass. It’s "officially" prohibited on the space station.