Searching For Amalia
The series will focus on the "missing history" of the Gilded Age artist, Amalia Kussner. It will be a search for her many miniatures of famous people that never made it to museums. Also mysteries about her life, such as the hidden details 1901 lawsuit.
Searching For Amalia
Gilded Age "Teas", Luxury Liner Meals & Amalia Kussner
This is the first full-length episode of the new series, Searching for Amalia, that will explore her life and maybe uncover some of it's mysteries.
Amalia Kussner held her own "teas" both in New York and London, in part to get new customers. She also traveled on the luxury liners of the late Gilded Age, such as the Lusitania (a Cunard ship), who would have provided sumptuous meals. We'll discuss what foods would have been served with Becky Diamond, who is an expert in Gilded Age cooking and events. She will review an actual dinner menu from the Lusitania, that would have been enjoyed by Amalia and her husband, Charles du Pont Coudert.
Information about the biography of Kussner (and ways to purchase) can be found at this link (or www.kathleenlangone.com).
For Becky Diamond's Gilded Age Cookbook and her upcoming Christmas cookbook - please use this link (or www.beckydiamond.com).
Please do subscribe to this series, and I hope to have a new episode each month. And NOTE: My original series, People Hidden in History, still exists and will for some time. There are two episodes there are about Amalia Kussner's life.
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