Food at Sea

Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times explores in colorful detail the culinary traditions of seafarers from the Stone Age to cruise ships and submarines. Along the way, Simon Spalding reveals the food traditions of early explorers, sailing navies, immigrant and slave ships, early steamers, and ocean liners, as well as changes in shipboard culinary practices and the mutual influences of shoreside and shipboard culinary traditions.