To mark an exhibit in New Jersey, a crowd will eat a meal modeled on the last one served to the ship’s first-class passengers.
To mark an exhibit in New Jersey, a crowd will eat a meal modeled on the last one served to the ship’s first-class passengers.
To mark an exhibit in New Jersey, a crowd will eat a meal modeled on the last one served to the ship’s first-class passengers.
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find out about a dinner with an updated menu from the last meal on the Titanic. We’ll also find out about a member of the Central Park Five who is running for the City Council.
After the Titanic hit an iceberg, the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” was played.
Tonight, an invitation-only crowd will be served a cocktail by that name.
The crowd will dine on an updated version of the first-class passengers’ last meal, an extravagant dinner that began with soup — consommé and cream of barley — and ended with peaches in chartreuse jelly, éclairs and French ice cream. In between, waiters brought out dishes including salmon, duckling and squab.
“We made the portions smaller,” said the cookbook author and food-television personality Gail Simmons, who modernized the menu that will be served tonight at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. Simmons also trimmed the menu to seven courses, from the 10 that were served on the ship that night in April 1912.
Her changes made sense to Paul Hoffman, the director of the center. “Those were not light courses,” he said. “Very buttery, very creamy.” He said that Simmons’s reinterpretation would include healthier ingredients — more vegetables and vegetable purées — “so we’re not rushing you to the cardiologist right after the meal.”