TEA & TALK SERIES: How to Throw a Dinner Party in the Gilded Age

Enjoy tea and scones and tea fare in Staatsburgh’s formal dining room while listening to talks on Gilded Age history.For more than merely eating food, the Gilded Age dinner table was the supreme accomplishment of a hostess, according to Emily Post in 1922. Beth M. Forrest, Professor of Liberal Arts and Applied Food Studies at the Culinary Institute of America, uses cookbooks, etiquette manuals, and other primary source documents to consider the social expectations of both the host and the guest, from how to choose the menu and set the table, to the proper way to eat your soup.