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Dinner Menu:

Drink: Champagne 
I chose champagne as the drink of choice because it was Jackie's drink of choice. It was reported that she most always drank at least one glass a day. She was a heavy drinker, especially once experiencing trauma from the death of her husband.
Jackie drinking champagne

Hors d'oeuvre: Fresh fruit and cottage cheese
Fruit and cottage cheese would be the hors d'oeuvre for this party because it was a large part of Jackie's diet. After several days of "heavy eating" (according to Jackie), she would go on a fruit fast and eat only fruit. This was also a very common meal for her, and would often be her lunch meal.



 Appetizer: Baked potato with sour cream and caviar
I chose to have this as the appetizer because this was often all that Jackie would eat in a day. She never had much of a heavy appetite and "watched her weight with the rigor of diamond merchant counting his carats". On her potatoes, Jackie preferred Beluga caviar, an expensive caviar that costs between seven and ten thousand dollars per kilogram. This was very expensive because it could only be found in sturgeon in the Caspian sea. This caviar is so expensive that many say it should only be consumed off of a mother of pearl spoon.



Main Course: Poulet a l'estragon avec casserole marie blanche
This meal was chicken cooked in oil and tarragon, with a dish made with cottage cheese and sour cream. I chose this as the main course because it was served at the Kennedy-Radziwill party. Jackie selected the menu, and it was served on yellow linen tables with with white embroidered cloths. The tables were decorated with low vermeil baskets of spring flowers. At this party, the guests danced along to a live orchestra until 3am.



Dessert: Peaches Cardinal
The dessert selected is peaches cardinal. It consists of steamed peaches with a raspberry sauce. This recipe was featured in the cookbook "Cooking for Madam" written by Marta Sgubin who was Jackie's longtime housekeeper. This was reportedly one of Jackie's favorite desserts and recipes.




I purposely tried to keep this menu as minimal as possible to represent Jackie's unhealthy relationship with food. She ate very little, especially after the death of her husband. According to sources, the "toll of the horror she survived was plain to see on her painfully thin frame". Although this must have been very traumatic for her to endure, it wasn't the case for her whole life. As she got older, she "let things flow" and began to eat what she wanted. She often indulged in late night snacks of brownies and chocolate chips cookies, and was once even found in her pantry with the lights off, eating ice cream out of the container.

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