Dining First Class on the RMS Titanic

Thank you all for sticking with me during this series. It was so fun to make and I hope to revisit the topic someday, but for now, that’s all she wrote.

That jello used to be EXTREMELY FANCY in the Gilded Age gives a lot more context to why 40s and 50s cookbooks so heavily leaned on jello monstrosities for fancy dishes. "Instant gelatin is a thing now! Everyone has a refrigerator! Everyone can be fancy! PUT BOLOGNA IN YOUR JELLO SALAD"

The Titanic sank when my Irish grandmother was 14 years old. She made the third class trip to America herself at 16. There was growing unrest in Ireland preceeding the war for independence. My grandmother's older sisters took her to The Plaza hotel for tea...the fanciest restaurant she had ever been in. Recounting the experience to me, she told me about a red wine jelly being served with Crème anglaise. She told me she almost wept because it was too pretty to eat.

It’s insane that so many of the foods that we just commonly eat with normal silverware today had an entire ritual dedicated to it

Thank you for being honest and letting us know you didn’t like the gelatin. It’s refreshing to have a cooking show with an honest cook.

so many titanic series focus so much on the disaster itself, it's actually so refreshing to have a series going in depth into the smaller and oft forgotten details. this and the ancient rome series are my absolute favourites of yours so far! thank you so much for the wonderful history and recipes you share with us!

I was so caught up in him telling the story, that I had forgotten it was about the food lmao and then he cuts to " SO WHEN YOURE FINISHED... " I was like oh right 😂

I once had a very distinct flavored, yellow-green tinged jelly at a relative’s house as a kid and to this day I have no idea what the exact flavor is. You described an herbal, medicinal taste due to the chartreuse and it’s some what on point. The color of this gelatin reminds me of it and I’m so intrigued to see if it is my childhood jello.

Fun fact, I went to school with a girl who was a direct descendant of the Thayers. I remember she had her aunt come in and talk to our class about them and the Titanic in general, was pretty interesting.

You know, as dark as this might sound, you could probably do a series on "last meals" of (in)famous people. What did Lincoln eat before going to the theater and so on. LOVED the Titanic videos!

I never knew just how grandiose Titanic really was. All I ever heard about it was its sinking, I liked learning more about life aboard, makes it actually feel real, rather than some "distant" history

My dad and I threw a dinner party a few years ago where we recreated the last First Class meal of the Titanic. Obv we couldn't get squab (baby pigeon) so we had to substitute Cornish game hen, which turned out great, but the cold asparagus salad was not my thing. My favourite menu item was the Punch Romaine cocktail/palate-cleanser. Can absolutely recommend!

My Mothers father was nearly put to work on Titanic as a very young boy to clean shoes etc. Instead his parents and him moved to France to work on a large estate. The owner of the estate had an early plane which my Grandad learned to fly. At the start of WW1 he wanted to be a pilot but having some German ancestry ( middle name Hanover) changed it to Albert and joined RFC at the age of around 18 I believe. I know he was shot down three times but survived the war. When ww2 started he wanted to join the RAF as a fighter pilot but was to old so became an inventor in Portsmouth Dockyard.

All along this series, whenever a person's picture was shown, I would immediately look at the dates to see if they survived and if they did, how long did they live.
It's one thing to know the numbers of victims but when you see their faces and more over when you hear their stories, it just brings your closer to them.
I loved the Titanic episodes, thank you Max!

Tears started to fall when Max mentioned they (the Strausses) were found in each other's arms - I've known their story for a long, long time but it strikes me, especially poignant, now that I am a widow. My husband and I were that close, always. We were still walking hand in hand in our mid 60s. He died 28 months ago and I am entirely lost without my sweet man. I would have preferred to die with him than be left to live an empty life. He demanded though, that I live on and not die of grief. I promised him that I would do my best to live on.
And I can't believe Max had me laughing at the end. wobble, wobble.
I'd look under things for the flag. I bet the cat didn't eat it, he played with it and then lost interest.

It's pretty incredible to think how they kept all the food fresh. That is a massive amount of food to pack for a long voyage. I mean, these days, cruise ships stop in ports and could refill their stocks of food. Thank you for these interesting Titanic videos.

It’s strange to see how much more intricate interior design and clothing was back in those days compared to now. The level of detail to the architecture was something you don’t ever see today

I loved this Titanic series so sooo much!

This is a model for what YouTube series should be. Well-researched, concise, and artfully presented! Bravo!

I love how meticulous he is, going through every detail of what, by all rights, should be an incredibly simple thing to make. He takes the authenticity seriously and i respect him for it.