Polar expedition. Dominique live adventure Tara side kitchen - Ouest-France

Limbour Dominique is part of the crew who share this Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Lorient (Morbihan) to reach the Arctic Ocean. In his first expedition aboard Tara she planned to sweets and even warm marine scientists.

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“I hurry, I have 100 kg of flour to buy. “ When Dominique Limbour goes shopping, it’s heavy. The fifties is slender stove aboard Tara pairs of Lorient today. The oceanographic vessel will carry an almost complete tour of the Arctic for more than six months.

Even if there are stops, the chef has planned “a very large supply in Lorient” , both for practical and financial reasons. Not easy to find jams in ports of the Arctic Circle …

4700 meals in the kitchen

With 14 people on board, there are more than 4,700 meals to be prepared in the kitchen. A small room on the port side of the square, more or less adapted “On the stove must wedge pans with other empty bowls if it moves”

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But cooking at sea does not scare Dominica. The former nurse has already secured this position for navigation of five months, the Hans Hansson , Antarctica. And prepared the mess for a month when Tara has joined Ireland.

“The meals are very important on board. Scientists and sailors will be many out in the cold. Some boys eat like four! When it’s good, they are happy … and it always makes me happy. “

cakes for comfort

The storage constraints forced him to work freeze eggs or UHT milk. But the smiling brunette has also taken care to fill the freezer “good products, I negotiated with vegetable or meat producers of Lorient” .

But beware: “Non digging in the fridge in the kitchen because it must manage inventory. “ sweet side, the mistress of stoves however expected sweets and ” one or two cakes a day: brownies, muffins, carrot cake … “

But it will not be confined to the office. “I look forward to see marine animals, lights, contrasting landscapes. And feel the boat slip, it always makes me feel good. “ Scientists have promised him: it may even participate in fishing plankton

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Laurent NEPHEW.

out of the Tara Oceans Polar Circle, this Sunday, May 19, 2013 At 15 h, before the City of Sail Lorient, at the base of submarines. Free entertainment from 14 am.

See also our video: Tara preparations before facing the Arctic Ocean

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