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Casa SaltShaker
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chef: Dan Perlman
Host: Henry Tapia
September 6-8, 2007
Dining aboard an ocean liner was, and sometimes still is, a very elegant affair. These days, perhaps too many of them offer up all you can eat buffets, many stocked with mediocre food, but there was a time when the dining was truly a wonderous affair - with ornate printed menus and classic French service - and a cuisine that was “haute Continental” - the only continent of note, at the time, being Europe. Being the 100th anniversary of the launch of the RMS Lusitania, it seemed worthy of looking at some of the cuisine that they offered up. It took a little digging… well, not really that much, a google image search, to come up with a couple of photos of some of those early menus, and pulling ideas off of them, where I was able to read them clearly enough, turned out to provide more than enough inspiration for our Casa S dinner this weekend.
