... Ranhofer was unable to procure canvasback ducks, an expensive game dish often served at such elegant occasions of the Gilded Age. Nevertheless, Ranhofer prepared one of his finest banquets, adjusting the order of service to highlight the Pâté de Foie Gras, Bellevue, a special cold dish that he rarely made...

... Titanic Gilded Age White Star Cunard steamships haute cuisine steerage J. Pierpont Morgan investigations | andrea broomfield The Night the Good Ship Went Down Three Fateful Dinners Aboard the Titanic The 1958 lm version of Walter Lord s A Night to on stark class divisions on board obscures...