The One Pan Galley Gourmet: Simple Cooking on Boats

The authors of Seasoned by Salt have lived out fantasy. They took a leave of absence from ‘real’ life in Connecticut and set sail for the tropics. Along the way, they sailed angry seas near Bermuda before reaching the British Virgin Islands and heading south to Grenada. They each recount their fears and adventures from a different perspective, which makes for compelling reading.

Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean cooking, adding more to the pleasures of the table here than perhaps anywhere else. In The Spice Necklace, award-winning food and travel writer Ann Vanderhoof embarks on a voyage of culinary discovery, as she follows her nose (and her taste buds) into tiny kitchens and fragrant markets, through rainforest gardens and to family cook-ups on the beach, linking each food to its traditions, folklore and history.

Stitches Explorer is a 74-foot yawl, built in 1966 with an extensive rebuild in 1992, and very well equipped, with two of all the important pieces of equipment. In 2000, with an international crew, she set off on a journey that would include 62 countries, 180 ports, two major pirate areas and one pirate boarding. Starting from Florida, she headed south, down the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to Australia, Indonesia and Thailand, then across the Indian Ocean…