The wreck of the RMS Titanic endures as the most infamous maritime tragedy in history with an estimated 1500 people dying as it sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Countless books articles documentaries and films have chronicled what happened on the evening of April 14 1912; but in our obsession with the deaths of the Titanic’s passengers we often forget how they lived.
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The Titanic's Last Meal
The Titanic had been the subject of international fame long before it sank. Hailed as one of the largest and most luxurious ships ever built its passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world at the time including John Jacob Astor IV Benjamin Guggenheim and Isadore Straus the owner of Macy's. Captain Edward Smith was even known as the "Millionaire's Captain" for his ties to the wealthy.
These fabulously wealthy passengers stayed in the Titanic’s opulent first class quarters where a suite cost £870 which translates to a staggering $133132 in today’s dollars. Tickets included meals in the ship’s first class dining room where guests enjoyed a whopping 13 courses for dinner each accompanied by a different wine pairing. A few menus from this dining room survived the disaster (later sold for a staggering amount) so we know exactly what those first class passengers ate for their final meal. It seems that the Titanic’s dining room would have held its own against any of the world’s finest restaurants.
A dinner menu from the evening of April 14 reveals that the first-class passengers aboard the Titanic ate an extravagant dinner starting with various hors d'oeuvres and oysters. Then they had a choice of soup between cream of barley and consommé Olga a soup made with veal stock and sturgeon marrow. This was followed by salmon with mousseline sauce. It sounds like a well-balanced meal but the Titanic's chefs were just getting started.
