Sea Fare - Softcover

Allman, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935254014 ISBN 13: 9781935254010

Publisher: NorLightsPress.com, 2009

Synopsis

Readers who enjoy travel writing and exotic cuisine will love every page of Sea Fare. This is the story of Victoria Allman, a wandering chef who followed her love of food around the globe. Culinary trained at the Statford Chef's School in Canada and the Culinary Institute of America, Victoria shares her nine-year cooking odyssey as a yacht chef. Victoria's pursuit of food knowledge led her to kitchens in Hong Kong, England, Vietnam, Tahiti, South Africa, the Caribbean, and Nepal. From misadventure to romance, her travel stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from someone who's actually been there. Each new destination adds recipes and stories for Sea Fare: A Chef's Journey Across the Ocean.

About this title

About the Author:

Victoria Allman's sense of adventure allows her to thrive in the unpredictable world of yachting. She has eaten and cooked in dozens of exotic countries around the globe. To Victoria, the joy of travel lies in small things: discovering a perfectly ripe mango that drizzles juice down your chin when you bite into it, learning to make intricate Dim Sum bundles from a master chef in Hong Kong, and eating warthog grilled over a wood fire while on safari in South Africa. Imagine Imagine buying fish on board the yacht from an olive-skinned Italian wrinkle of a man with rough hands and bulging forearms; exhausting yourself landing a fish in Hemingway's Key West; swimming with dolphins in the pure, azure waters of the Caribbean; traveling up a muddy river, past wide-eyed children into the center of Papua New Guinea, or snorkeling the Bombay colored shallows of the South Pacific. This may seem like a crazy life, but sometimes crazy is downright normal.

Review:

When she isn't catching fish on hidden islands, immersing herself in fascinating cultures like Papua, New Guinea, or hanging out with colorful characters, she is serving up the most amazing meals and sharing her recipes and secrets. Victoria Allman is as good a writer as she is a cook. I loved reading the book. I wish I could have eaten it. --Rita Golden Gelman, author TALES OF A FEMALE NOMAD, Living at Large in the World.

Chef Victoria Allman became hooked on travel following a trip to the Bahamas more than 10 years ago. Since that time she's caught, sautéed, simmered and served her way through the Caribbean, Mediterranean, North America, Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific, from Australia to Tahiti. Sea Fare is her travel memoir of food, finding true love, and high seas adventure. --MiamiARTzine

Acting on wanderlust breeds fantastic discoveries. Making it a lifestyle puts dreams into reality. In Sea Fare, Victoria presents a global collage of unscripted culinary experience that offers the reader an honest portrayal in the school of life. --Chef David Shalleck, author of MEDITERANNEAN SUMMER

Allman's recipe is equal parts foodie-centric, glamour, and adventure, making for a delightful literary repast. --Seabourn Club Herald

Sea Fare serves up a plate full of enthralling stories and delectable recipes, giving readers a taste of what it's like to stand in the flip-flops of a megayacht chef, in all of its exotic and harrowing glory. --The Crew Report

About this edition

• Publisher: NorLightsPress.com
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1935254014
• ISBN 13: 9781935254010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234