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OXNARD — The Channel Islands Maritime Museum will present An Evening with Simon Spalding “Food at Sea from Ancient to Modern Times” at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 22 at 3900 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard.
Simon Spalding presents a sweeping panorama of food at sea, based on his book “Food at Sea – Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times.” Simon offers tantalizing stories of maritime culinary history, from the ingredients and practices of ancient Argonauts and Vikings through Renaissance explorers, sailing navies and merchant ships, steamships, ocean liners, cruise ships, and submarines.
Simon will tell the story of how food at sea, and in some cases, the foodways of people ashore, changed through a confluence of circumstances and emerging technologies, from Iceland’s medieval economy based on producing a single essential commodity to the development of refrigerated transport in the 1870s, and the electric galleys of modern naval vessels. Like the book, Simon’s program is illustrated with excerpts from poems and songs spanning centuries of human history.
Copies of “Food at Sea – Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times” and Simon’s CDs will be available for purchase and signing/inscribing at the end of the program. Tickets for the evening are available at www.cimmvc.org/event-details/an-evening-with-simon-spalding-food-at-sea-from-ancient-to-modern-times. CIMM members receive free admission, and general admission is $10. Seniors receive discounted pricing for the event at $5 per person.
About the Channel Islands Maritime Museum — Founded in 1991 and located in Oxnard’s Channel Islands Harbor, the Museum’s galleries feature rare and beautiful maritime paintings dating back to the 1600s, more than sixty world-class models of historic ships, rotating thematic fine arts exhibitions, and interactive exhibits that encourage visitors to expand their horizons about everything maritime. The Museum is currently open Thursday-Monday from 12 pm to 4 pm.