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Worm Castles & Molar Breakers: Tips on Hardtack
This is a preview for our May 20th Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture Food of the High Seas!
Hardtack is a terrible thing to eat. Tasteless, rock-hard biscuits of twice-baked flour (and salt if you're lucky), hardtack has been a major means of sustinence for sailors throughout history.
Fortunately, though, a) you're probably not a sailor, and b) hardtack has a lot of fun nicknames: ship's biscuit, sea biscuit, cabin bread, sea bread,...