Celebrated chef Regina Charboneau has joined the executive team of the American Queen as Chef de Cuisine. When Great American Steamboat Company begins operating the paddlewheeler on April 13, 2012, it will serve the Southern cuisine often served at Twin Oaks, Charboneau’s antebellum home and six-room B&B in Natchez, Mississippi. Trained in Paris at La Varenne, Charboneau also cooked in Alaska and New York before moving back to her native Natchez in 2000. Today, she writes for The Atlantic website, has authored two cookbooks, is a regular guest chef on the “P. Allen Smith Gardens” television show, and appears on network TV broadcasts.
Chef Regina’s vision for the American Queen is to re-create many American Classic dishes using only premium ingredients. The legendary gracious hospitality of the American South is thriving, and in that tradition you will be treated as an honored guest on the American Queen, thanks to Regina Charboneau!
The Great American Steamboat Company has announced three Civil War-theme voyages during the inaugural season of the American Queen. The eight- and 10-night theme cruises will include visits to battlefields and on-board entertainment including actors, impersonators, lecturers, balladeers and reenactments.
Fares begin at $2,295 per guest based on double occupancy, and include a pre- or post-cruise hotel stay, bottled water and soft drinks, wine and beer at dinner and complimentary shore adventures in each port of call.
The August 10 to 20, 2012, voyage sails from New Orleans with visits in Vicksburg and Helena, Mississippi; Chattanooga, Memphis and Savannah (for Shiloh National Military Park), Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky and Decatur, Alabama.
The August 20 to 30, 2012, sails between Chattanooga and Vicksburg visiting Decatur and Florence, Alabama; Savannah for Shiloh National Military Park; Paducah; and Ashport Landing and Memphis, Tennessee.
The August 30 to September 7, 2012, voyage between Vicksburg and Louisville, Kentucky, stopping at Helena, Arkansas; Memphis; and Henderson, and Louisville, Kentucky.
The August 10, 2012, voyage, presented by American Experience and Artful Travelers, will feature Ric Burns, who co-produced the PBS series “The Civil War” in 1990, and Mark Samels, executive producer of “American Experience” on PBS.
The August 20, 2012, cruise will feature historian A. Wilson Greene, manager with the National Park Service and founding member of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites; James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr., executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission; Barry Meadows, who portrays Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; and Al Stone, who portrays Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The August 30, 2012, sailing will feature the Hon. Frank J. Williams, founding chairman of the Lincoln Forum and retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and Harold Holzer, vice chairman of the Lincoln Forum and co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
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