Learn the secrets of cruise ship food!
Tuesday, May 20th - Doors at 7:30pm, talks start at 8pm
FREE FREE FREE, 21+Â RSVPÂ please
Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street in Gowanus
Every month, Masters of Social Gastronomy Sarah and Soma take on the history and science behind some of your favorite foods. This month, MSG takes to the high seas to explore the culinary world of drunken sailors, seventeenth-century pirates, and the modern-day cruise ships that rule the waves.
We’ll be trumpeting the salty secrets of maritime alcohol: the legendary rum rations of the Royal Navy, the invention of the gin and tonic, and how you come down with a case of scurvy.
And when it comes to food, how did we get from surviving on dried beef and hard tack to the elaborate all-you-can eat buffets of today? From Booze Cruises to the Love Boat, the Midnight Buffet to viral food poisoning, we’ll learn about the magnificent accomplishments of feeding a 3,000 passenger ocean liner–as well as the horrors that can be found in a kitchen at sea.
RSVP HERE!
I wish that I lived a few states closer so that I could attend this event. You’ve tweaked my appetite for knowledge on this subject!
aw, thanks! We’ll make a podcast on the topic someday soon!
This sounds fascinating (if not slightly ghastly – it would reassure me that cruise ships are not for me!). Too bad we missed it – now back in Florence :)