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In my book club we have this tradition that we randomly get assigned classic novels and have to throw a small party for the rest based on the book we've gotten. I picked Moby Dick this year
Any cool ideas for thematic food and drinks I could serve on my Moby Dick bankquet ? :) thanks
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>>22052782
hmm... depends on what you can get your hands on i guess
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>>22052782
Anything mariner related. There's marinara sauce and freselle (Neapolitan/southern Italian hard tack). There's caponata Napoletana and there are Genoese versions cappon magro etc. Those are classics but you can go look for actual mariners recipes wherever you live and give them an update. Chances are a good restaurant near you already did that.
You can dig through history and make an original ceviche (llibre de Sent Sovi, 1300s Spain). There's all sorts of stuff you can do with a bisque (for the drinking part). Or you can do something with spirulina, which is basically just plankton, stuff whales eat. It's healthy and veggie, the whales in your book club will love it.
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>>22052782
krill
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>>22052859
tht sounds wonderful anon, what a brilliant idea - what the whales eat - never crossed my mind but it's so obvious... I was also thinking ceviche as a starter. might go for some rum cocktails for drinks
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>>22052782
Whale shaped cake, maybe you can add to it by making “harpoons” out of string and toothpicks. Could try pairing with a fruit “boat” using half a watermelon shell filled with fruit and with a sail made with a wood chopstick and some paper
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>>22052783
>Hard tack
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>>22052782
Weevils
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>>22052782
Naval oranges
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>>22052814
yeah definitely clam and cod chowder, 3x a day. also, whale steaks, whale liver, whale brains
link to recipe taken from a period cookbook
https://chasingflukes.com/reading_guide-overview/glossary-contents/15t ry-pots-clam-chowder/
rare steak was also mentioned early in the book too i think
"applied his attention to beefsteaks, done rare.”"
dont forget some rum and ale
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>>22052782
Should I join a book club? Would it be weird for a 25 year old single man joining one? I love reading
your one sounds cool
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>>22052782
clam and cod chowders are the first things eaten in Mody Dick if I recall. And they're the only foods given much attention aside from whale and blubber and shit
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kek
Good one, anon.
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Shark Steaks
>>22052797
Are these discontinued or what? Every time I go to Dollar General there's just an empty slot on the shelf where the whales should be. Been that way for months in every town I go to.
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>>22053011
>checked
Do you not know that in the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?
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>>22052782
Beer, Gin, cheese, bread, lots of it!
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