Make time to save time with appetizers when guests are late
The call comes over the radio. The guests want to spend more time at the beach, or the plane is late, or there is more shopping to do. Either way, as the chef, …
Chef Mary Beth Lawton Johnson
Mary Beth Lawton Johnson is a certified executive pastry chef and Chef de Cuisine and has worked on yachts for more than 25 years.Author Archives
When picking designer water, look for minerals, chose on taste
Nothing is considered too good for the yacht’s owner and guests. The designer fabric and furniture, the designer clothes, even the chef-designed food all …
Options make cheese classy again
Just a few years ago, serving a cheese platter to yacht guests was considered passé. Too easy, too boring, too simple. Other items stole our creative …
Yachts chefs have advantage for cooking fresh-caught fish
If there ever was a chef who knows about fish and seafood, it would be a yacht chef. We have the on-water advantage. From purchasing directly from fishing …
Serve up more than salads for vegans guest and crew onboard
As the chef onboard, you might encounter a set of guests or even one person on a trip whose sole dietary needs center around vegetables. So you have to have …
Immerse yourself in a delicious ‘foodie vacation’
Once a chef, always a chef is how the saying goes. In those rare moments that as a chef, you want to experience cuisine and remember the moment you decided to …
Secret to satisfying yacht charter guests’ late night cravings
You are on charter and the guests have just arrived back onboard after a night out on the town. They ate about 6 hours ago, but are now hungry. What do you …
No waste mentality means discards get a second chance
You have trimmings left over from vegetables, meats, pastry or dough after working on a meal or fabricating a meat for dinner. So what do you do with them? …
Buy Local movement should apply to provisioning abroad
As the chef provisioning the yacht, are you helping the owner operator of a small store or hurting it? You are in a foreign port, having arrived with all …
Souffles will fall, but they rise any occasion to special
No other dessert besides the souffle can make a dining experience more memorable. The French cook Vincent de la Chapelle is first credited with inventing this …
