Creator
Battle House
Title
Queen Victoria's Birthday Banquet
Coverage
Mobile, Alabama
Date
May 24, 1855
Description
Battle House was the quintessential luxury hotel in the antebellum South. This dinner celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday was held by British expatriates possibly connected to the plantation-era cotton trade. The bill of fare includes crab gumbo, green turtle soup, and four local fish—broiled pompano, baked sheephead, fried perch, and boiled redfish.