Cunard, Queen Elizabeth, 2015

Notes from the collector: An old friend of ours, the widow of a previous Director of ASIO, one of our intelligence agencies, went on a voyage last summer and kindly brought back several different menus from the ship. The best two are the first and last night’s menus cleverly included in a booklet about the history of the company. You will note at the top is a Royal Spa Selection and I had no idea what the figures next to the item meant until I wised up and looked down below to see they were calories/fat/fibre! Someone said no one goes on a voyage to worry about the diet, but there will be a percentage who do nowadays. First time I have seen such figures. The Cunard ships are class ships and what level of cabin one has determines which dining room one dines in. Our friend was one step down from the top. If you look at the menus carefully you will see they lean toward being American. Main courses are entrees and many items will be familiar to Americans. As an excursion in our senior year took the class on the Queen Mary we toured the galley, but failed to provide us with any menus! The Queen Mary is now a floating hotel in Long Beach, California.