A night to rememberThere is no denying the fact that for the first class
passengers, the last
meal served on the Titanic had eleven courses- each with a
special wine. This was a meal to
remember on ‘A night to remember’ as many philosophers and the last survivor
termed it where four of the courses were a meat, fish or game dish that may be
treated as the main courses of today being
rare and identified as one of the
rich food. It was an amazing phase in the midst of
disaster to float over the
vast Atlantic
Ocean
where the arrangements for the passengers were perfect, glorious and dignified.
We know this from a copy of the doomed ship’s final first class menu survived
in the pocket of a passenger. Details about the menu and more juicy morsels, from
recipes to gossip, come from the records kept in the library on ‘Last dinner on
Titanic Menus and recipes from the great
Liner’ surveyed and collected in tact by
Rick bold and Dana McCauley.In shortened form, the
courses of the final first class menu were: Shrimp canapés and raw oyster with
Vodka, lemon and hot sauce, Consommés or barley soup, poached salmon with
mousse line sauce, a choice of filet mignon with foie gras and black truffles
or Chicken Lionfish, plus a stuffed zucchini like vegetables, a choice of
minted lamb, glazed roast duck or beef sirloin, served with potatoes, mint pea
timbales and creamed carrots, a plate-clearing sorbet made from champagne, orange
juice and rum, roast squab on watercress, asparagus champagne-saffron salad, a cold plate,
including foie gras plate, a choice of desserts including peaches jelled in
chartreuse liqueur, and chocolate éclairs or French Vanilla ice cream, both a
novelty at the time and lastly, assorted fresh fruits and cheeses had been
served to the unfortunate passengers of the great liner. Before sea voyage such
rare items had been collected for the passengers which seemed to be an amazing
event in the world. Suffice it to say, every passengers ate voraciously and
made merriments to a great extent. The Titanic was built by valuable metals
collected from home and abroad and other rare materials which were also a
painstaking task but the incident of sinking the Titanic occurred by hitting an
ice flake which was impossible on the part of such magnificent ship. There is no denying the fact, the foods that
had been served to passengers were all costly and collected from here and there
and even from the remotest corner which were rare in the history of sea voyage.
It has been found out later that a research body has worked in this connection
so that the first journey of the Titanic becomes successful and romantic. As
per remarks made by the commentator of Radio and TV, the journey was excellent
at the outset but in the latter just after 45 minutes, every thing had been
changed metrically as a flow of misfortune. It hit on the flakes of ice very
minutely which was out of humanity’s reach for the first time of the disaster
but it was discovered later which surprised every one in the world.
Finally, in view of the
above, it is evident that the meal which was served to the passengers of the
great liner Titanic just on the eve of great disaster was a meal to remember.
If we profoundly ponder over such events, the great liner was a magnificent
object that were ever built for which the owner felt pride in his mind as
millions and millions of pound were involved in it. It was a rare incident in
the history of sea voyage as 1500 lives were wrecked for which the whole world
had been traumatized. The people of the world articulate their subterranean
condolence to the people who died in the ship wreck. The reduce to rubble of
the great Liner was exposed in 1985 for which a court of the United States settled
the possession right to the RMS Titanic Inc., to carry out salvage operation by
establishing a separate sight near the wreck. This company tried heart and soul
to recover goods and they afterwards did it which had been reflected in the web
page of the company and in the Greenwich records also. But Eva Hurt,
the last survivor criticized it in the sense that the company had done so to
express their business image in the world which was unlawful. She argued on the
basis that the whole event may be preserved as a memorial tomb.In fine, the Titanic
disaster is a memorable event and the meal that was served just before the
wreck was a meal to remember. According to Eva Hurt, the last survivors, the
out cries and the sweet memories in the midst of merriments of the people just
before death need to be treated as a memorial tomb. The recovered items as
reflected in the Greenwich records must recollect us
to show high esteems to the passengers of the great liner.
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