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Let’s dispense with the usual summary of what happened in the past year. 2025 wasn’t a great year: we did travel a fair bit, but family illnesses both here and abroad, had us focused more on medical issues than gastronomic delights. By the end of the year, it seemed fitting to return to France for the festive season and spend time with my family, one more time. We started the New Year… Read More

Passage Mexico to Colombia – Feb 21-27, 2014 I remember starting this blog with the motto “cooking while cruising”, and must confess that every posts so far have been written while in a Mexican port. Not much sailing happened in the past year or so. But that’s all about to change, with our resuming our cruising schedule for 2014. First leg was a couple of weeks ago, a 7 day passage to… Read More

Lets go back to the days when my cooking skills were inexistent. Actually, I could boil rice, which hardly counts as a gourmet prowess though it goes a long way towards sustenance. When faced with the task of learning to cook, where do you start? These were the late 1980’s, pre-internet days, so forget googling recipes or join food forums. I had no family and very few friends in Australia, international phone… Read More