Traveling in Style: The Jaw-Dropping Menus of Lusitania’s First Class — tastebook.com

While researching my newest book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, I decided that I really needed to get a sense of what transatlantic travel was like, so my wife and I booked a late-November voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton, England. We chose November because the prices were better, and the ship less crowded—which conferred a secondary benefit: Cunard kept upgrading us as the date approached, until we found ourselves in the Queen’s Grill, roughly equivalent to the Lusitania’s first class, or “cabin class.”

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