![]() ![]() And after it went bankrupt in 1867, it was purchased by Thomas Ismay, and the flag – a, quote, “red swallowtail burgee sporting a single large white star,” end quote - renamed the company, The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company. Five years after its founding, the White Star Line of Boston Packets took advantage of recent discoveries of gold in Australia in 1850. Importantly, for our story, one of these shipping lines was the White Star Line of Boston Packets, which only served the eastern seaboard of the United States. I was young enough that it was still one of the earliest memories I have of realizing that not everybody lived and ate the same way, and it not only prompted a life long interest in studying food and class structure, but also in the Titanic itself.īut, before we go on to talk about the Titanic, I think it is definitely worthwhile to take a brief look at the history of the company that built the ship, the White Star Line.īy 1891, there were twenty-nine steamship shipping across the Atlantic on a regular basis. ![]() What really brought it home for me were the references to surviving menus of the meals being served. Many years before Leo and Kate broke everybody’s hearts in the 1997 weepy, I watched a documentary on the BBC about the sinking of the Titanic, and the point that most stuck in my mind was not the sadness at the loss of life, but the differences in how people were treated aboard because of their station in life. The number came from the guests and the crew, and arguments have railed ever since about how many could have been saved if more people had made it to the available seats in the inadequate, if legal, number of lifeboats.Īshamedly, I have to confess that this was not the question that was closest to the top of my mind when I first became interested in the history of the Titanic. ![]() Titanic finally slid beneath the chilly waters of the North Atlantic Ocean on the morning of April the 15th 1912, it took with it around 1500 people from a ship’s manifest of around 2000 people. I also don’t intend to dwell too long on the sinking of the ship, however, because, quite frankly, that’s been covered so well by other people.ĭespite these deliberate omissions, I hope however, that this will be a useful resource for those of you, like me, who are fascinated not only with the Titanic, but also with the impact of class structure of the time, particularly in Great Britain. So, although this podcast will include a short history on the origins of the White Star Line, and the meals provided on the other ships on the White Star Olympic Class cruisers, I’m not going to dwell too much on the development of Trans-Atlantic crossings, which I will leave to your own study if you so choose. There have been hundreds of books and articles written about the Titanic, and a few on the subject of the meals served, a few of which we will reference here and will be cited with the transcripts - available on. It’s a subject that’s been covered before, of course. Of course, this being a podcast about the history of food, we’re going to be looking at the meals that were eaten aboard the ship by all the different classes of passengers and by the crew. It is perhaps the most famous ship of all time and definitely the most famous sailing tragedy on record. Hi everybody and welcome to the latest episode of EAT MY GLOBE: Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Food.Īnd on today’s episode, we are going to talk about a subject that has always been a fascination for me since I was a young child: the history of the Titanic. EAT MY GLOBE: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About FoodįROM CONSOMME TO CABIN BISCUITS: DINING ON THE TITANIC
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