New Yorker article

[RLM77]

This article is really interesting and actually covers some new ground...at least for me:

 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/floating-feasts

 

 

Marlee

[CRUZBUDS]

Thanks for posting -- it was a very well written article.

 

You're right, I learned a couple of things also ... and I thought I knew it all ;)

[cathykb]

Great read - thanks for sharing.

 

Cathy

[KBS1607]

Thanks for posting, it was well written.

[temple1]

Thanks for sharing. I'm sharing this one with DH.

[MichaelCMTX]

Sayeth the article: "In the early nineteen-nineties... The food was mostly stuff that not even a boarding school could get away with now: a sad-looking salad with a single cherry tomato in the center, a fish fillet as rigid as tree bark"

 

...and yet we're always hearing in these parts about how the food has plummeted in quality.

[bigque]

Good read! I enjoyed reading that, thanks for sharing! :cool:

[julesbeara]

Amazing article. I learned a lot. Thanks for posting.

[LBumb]

very nice

[garnetpalmetto]

Sayeth the article: "In the early nineteen-nineties... The food was mostly stuff that not even a boarding school could get away with now: a sad-looking salad with a single cherry tomato in the center, a fish fillet as rigid as tree bark"

 

...and yet we're always hearing in these parts about how the food has plummeted in quality.

 

It's common to elevate what happened in the "good old days" as being the pinnacle of service/cuisine what have you. I know people who constantly bemoan the death of inflight meals on domestic airline routes, but who always seem to forget that they were the butt of many a stand-up comics jokes for a reason...

[Homosassa]

Sayeth the article: "In the early nineteen-nineties... The food was mostly stuff that not even a boarding school could get away with now: a sad-looking salad with a single cherry tomato in the center, a fish fillet as rigid as tree bark"

 

...and yet we're always hearing in these parts about how the food has plummeted in quality.

 

It depend on what cruise line he was on.

 

We started cruising in 1976 and up to about 2005, food was always excellent on board the cruiselines we traveled on.

 

The only shock we ever had was a cruise on Premier Cruise Line. The food was much like what was described in the article.

 

Sadly, one of the cruise lines that food quality and selection has deteriorated on is Royal Caribbean. But then again, the cruise line has revised its target demographic from the market demographic it once served.

[bigeck]

Thank you, very good read. I want his job.

[nelblu]

Good stuff.