THE ADVENTURES OF A WAYWARD CHEF

More posts to come…
But for my friends and family who are reading, here’s the diagnosis:
1 – Bone fragment in my knee2 – Torn MCL3 – Partially torn or sprained ACL4 – Cartilage damage5 – Frozen joint.
Have to get an MRI, then it’s looking like surgery…

In a previous post, “Bequia and the Return of the Prodigal Sons”, I had written about sailing from St. Martin to Bequia and how, just off of Martinique, we’d come across a seafaring rowboat with a Canadian couple aboard. At first we thought it was a life raft and we might be rescuing someone, but [...]

New York in the spring time, couldn’t be better. I’m so glad to be here, even if it’s brief…. Coming home to The City is like slipping into my favorite pair of well-worn blue jeans. Familiar and comfortable; I know every inch, every seam, every crease, every frayed thread; its smells, its look and feel [...]

The boat in the yard:
Rigging going up:
Dillon hanging from the mast:
Today was a big day. The rigging went up; a process which took the entire day and one very big crane… The guys finished just as a giant rainstorm hit. I was in the kitchen putting away all the provisions I’d shopped [...]

It’s early Wednesday morning and I’m sitting up on deck as I write this. I slept like a baby my first night on the boat because it was the first time in three weeks I haven’t been wondering what the boat is going to be like!
I came on board Monday morning as planned. The crew [...]

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” ~Andre Gide
Well my little grass-fed, free-range chick-a-dees, I am happy to report that this will be my last post from my ghetto-fabulous Brooklyn abode for tomorrow morning I am off to Staten Island to join rank with [...]

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends”
~Joseph Campbell
Dario called me this afternoon and told me to be ready to go tomorrow [...]

“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”~Helen Rowland, 1876-1950
“He is not worth his salt”, is a common expression origination in ancient Greece where salt was traded for slaves. Roman soldiers were paid “salt money”, salarium [...]

If you try Queens Hideaway, you’ll certainly forgive my previous transgressions…
Now, back to the matter at hand. I spoke to Dario and asked him if I could begin shopping and prepping at home for the passage. I emailed him a menu, to which he said ok without, I suspect, even looking at it – which [...]

Well, our departure has again been delayed. The boat is out of the water right now and the crew is waiting on some rigging parts, which isn’t really that big of problem but while the boat is out of the water there is no refrigeration (the on-board refrigeration system is water cooled – hence, no [...]