Filet Mignon Lili with truffle mushroom duxelles, potatoes Anna and a Cognac-Madeira demi-glace
Titanic when it hit the iceberg: 337 in first class, 285 in second class and 721 in third class – along with 885 crew members. Only 705 survived. First-class passenger Mahala Douglas was among them. She and her husband, Walter Douglas, were returning from a three-month tour of Europe, following his retirement. She and their French maid made it into a lifeboat. But her husband, wanting to “be a gentleman,” reportedly refused, allowing women and children to go ahead. “We dined the last night in the Ritz restaurant,” she later recalled. “It was the last word in luxury. The tables were gay with pink roses and white daisies, the women in their beautiful gowns of satin and silk, the men immaculate and well-groomed, the stringed orchestra playing music from Puccini and Tchaikovsky. The food was superb: caviar, lobster, quail from Egypt, plover’s eggs, and hothouse grapes and fresh peaches. The night was cold and clear, the sea like glass.” P Waldorf pudding caps 50
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