http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/07/castaway-cuisine-fictional-and-real/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/07/castaway-cuisine-fictional-and-real/comment-page-1/#comment-13397 Gilligan! « Punahou Class of 1984 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:28:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=9689#comment-13397 [...] Castaway Cuisine, Fictional and Real Food wasn’t scarce, though it took some ingenuity and the occasional suspension of the laws of science. There were coconuts, of course, but there was also the episode where Gilligan tried to make pancake syrup from tree sap and ended up discovering a powerful glue that they hoped would allow them to repair the S. S. Minnow. Another time, a crate of vegetable seeds washed ashore. They were discovered to be radioactive, and the resulting vegetable garden provided eaters with special powers.   LikeBe the first to like this post. [...] [...] Castaway Cuisine, Fictional and Real Food wasn’t scarce, though it took some ingenuity and the occasional suspension of the laws of science. There were coconuts, of course, but there was also the episode where Gilligan tried to make pancake syrup from tree sap and ended up discovering a powerful glue that they hoped would allow them to repair the S. S. Minnow. Another time, a crate of vegetable seeds washed ashore. They were discovered to be radioactive, and the resulting vegetable garden provided eaters with special powers.   LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/07/castaway-cuisine-fictional-and-real/comment-page-1/#comment-13396 LisaNYC Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:36:07 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=9689#comment-13396 For a more gruesome intro to castaway cuisine, read Nathaniel Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." After that boat went down, the survivors had to turn to cannibalism to survive. According to Philbrick's non-fiction book, that was not unusual at the time (1820). For a more gruesome intro to castaway cuisine, read Nathaniel Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.” After that boat went down, the survivors had to turn to cannibalism to survive. According to Philbrick’s non-fiction book, that was not unusual at the time (1820).

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