recipes
Greener Cleaner
DIY solutions offer a healthier, safer way to scrub, shine, and sanitize. There’s an easy way to avoid the health risks and damage to the ecosystem caused by the strong…
Gifts from the Galley
Make that send-off swag bag for charter guests extraordinary by adding a little something from the chef. We know the chief stew likes to put together a nice send-off swag…
Chefs up their game when short supplies mean empty shelves at food stores
Whether scrambling for scarce provisions or conjuring up some immunity-boosting magic, these pro yacht chefs tackled pandemic challenges with true aplomb.
Top Shelf: Get gingerbread inspired in St. Moritz
Top Shelf: by Chef Timothy MacDonald No greater experience yet lived was the one experienced on Amevi where, after lunch floating just off Nice, I was whisked away without consent…
Top Shelf: Finding NW cuisine through Seattle noise
Top Shelf: Story and photos by Chef Timothy MacDonald Sitting in Fremont Coffee Company, late on a Saturday afternoon. Boston’s “More than a Feeling” competes with a hippie playing an…
Top Shelf: Get comfortable with Laurel Canyon cuisine
Top Shelf: by Chef Timothy MacDonald Recently, I ran into a Neanderthal. Not the stick-and-stone variety, but a true dinosaur in the modern healthy green “powerfood” crew food industry. In…
Top Shelf: Cooking for the boss, no matter what
Top Shelf: by Chef Timothy MacDonald Often, we see in employment ads “American home cooking, midwest style, meat-and-potatoes”. There seems to be two sides to the culinary coin in regard…
Top Shelf: My go-to final meal for difficult charter or life
Top Shelf: by Chef Timothy MacDonald At or around 6 a.m. on the 25th of April, people gathered in their driveways in Australia to pay their respects … Anzac Day.…
Yacht chef shares skills, humor in daily videos
By Lucy Chabot Reed Chef Brennan Dates has created Quarantine Kitchen, short videos of anything food related he feels like discussing — except recipes — while riding out a 50-plus-day…
Top Shelf: Pig roast tops off trip to Papua New Guinea
Top Shelf: by Chef Tim MacDonald “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny…
