I have been selected the Women of Distinction Magazine a “Distinguished Professional in Her Field”. Please check out my exciting and rewarding new press release! The release has been distributed all over from California to Miami. I will also be featured both in print and digitally in the upcoming edition of the Women of Distinction […]
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Charter Chef Publishes Favorite Recipes in Portside Cuisine Cookbook
This a really nice article recently written about me and The Portside Cuisine Cookbook that was published in the March edition of the ALL AT SEA, an online magazine. I wanted to share it with you, and I hope you enjoy it! This article is written by Carol M. Bareuther, All At Sea Magazine March […]
Throwing a Dinner Party
As a yacht chef, I learned quickly the importance of being organized and prepared for cooking for a group of people with a specific schedule. It’s sink or swim! Grocery shopping in the Caribbean was challenging on the best of days, and if the yacht was traveling, I never knew if I would even get […]
A Yacht Chef’s Old Hurricane Story [Part 5] The Final Installment
Several weeks later, we ended up living back in St. Thomas on a dear friend’s boat that was one of 20 or so boats that remained floating (out of about 300). He was dismasted, and the mast came through his cabin top, and he sustained some additional damages, but, thankfully, his 65 foot sloop made […]
A Yacht Chef’s Old Hurricane Story [Part 4]
We were so happy to be alive and on land, that we stood on the road and just looked around… I can’t even describe what I saw. We knew we had to get to higher ground because trees, pieces of houses, roofs, even conch shells were just whizzing by over our heads. We spotted a […]
A Yacht Chef’s Old Hurricane Story [Part 3]
Our engine was already running in an effort to keep strain off our anchor lines… but we could no longer overpower the wind. We tried to turn Rhiannon around to run her up into the mangrove that used to be behind us but were now only a couple of trees jutting out of the water. […]
A Yacht Chef’s Old Hurricane Story [Part 2]
We arrived in Culebra with “Rhiannon” 1.5 days before the onset of the storm… We worked feverishly that whole time preparing for a storm that would probably give us 60 to 80 knot winds with gusts up to a very unlikely 120 knots. We were as ready as we could be and had all of […]
A Yacht Chef’s Old Hurricane Story [Part 1]
I know this is a culinary blog, but my yachting stories are what has defined my cooking “portside”, and I think you might find this particular story interesting… In the late 80’s to the mid 90’s, for about 8 years I lived aboard a couple of sailboats with my Ex and a beautiful cat named […]
Welcome to Portside Cuisine, a Yacht Chef’s Blog!
Hi everyone. I want to welcome you to my little space on the World Wide Web, where I am excited to share some of my favorite recipes and stories of close friends, quiet nights at anchor enjoying great food, surviving several very scary hurricanes, several Thanksgivings at sea, an earthquake at anchor, flying fish, moon […]