Cocktails with a Curator: Meissen "Swan Service"
January 8, 2021
This week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator is a story of creation and destruction. Join Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon as he examines two pieces of the legendary Meissen Swan Service, which was all but destroyed during World War II when Russian soldiers ransacked a palace in the Polish village of Brody. This opulent set of dishes was given by Augustus III, King of Poland, to the statesman Heinrich von Brühl, who helped engineer Augustus’s ascent to the throne in 1734. Originally comprised of 2,200 intricately designed pieces, only about 100 pieces survive. This week’s complementary cocktail is a spiked hot chocolate.
Cocktail Recipe
Spiked Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate
Dark Rum
Audiences under 21 are encouraged to join with a non-alcoholic drink.
Mocktail
Hot chocolate
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