Eat like a Tar

[Portsdown]

Note: This is actually an attempt to impart serious information on the feeding of seamen - don't be misled by the jocular tone

 

First, play this in the background, on a loop by preference

 

<Roast Beef of Old England>

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YzLIDmBAo

 

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Then read this.

 

http://www.britishfoodinamerica.com/Our-First-Nautical-Number/the-lyrical/Food-at-sea-in-the-age-of-fighting-sail/#.VPNQ5-GheUk

 

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Then gain access to these books, from the list at the bottom of the above:

 

Lilian Langseth-Christensen, The Mystic Seaport Cookbook: 350 Years of New England Cooking (New York 1970)

 

Brian Lavery (ed.), Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 (Aldershot, Hants 1998)

 

Janet Macdonald, Feeding Nelson’s Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era (London 2004)

 

N. A. M. Rodger, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (Annapolis 1986)

N. A. M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (London 2004)

 

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Then beg, borrow, steal, take from a prize, purchase under the guise of a gift for a loved one, THIS book:

 

Anne Chotzinoff Grossman and Lisa Grossman Thomas, Lobscouse and Spotted Dog (1998)

 

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/11/lobscouse-and-spotted-dog-which-its-a-recipe-book

 

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Now cook - remembering to 'first find your rats' and to take in a reef sufficiently often to burn off all those calories.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Portsdown