Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Life Of A Superyacht Chef

A superyacht chef's day will normally begin at 6am, preparing meals for around 12 guests and eight crew members on a vessel up to 60 meters long.

Life Of A Superyacht Chef: Dream Job Or Nautical Nightmare? -- CNN

( CNN) -- Delivering five-star meals to a restaurant of hungry customers is a daunting prospect for any chef.

Now imagine having to create the same top-class dishes in a floating galley just four meters wide, with no staff or a supermarket in sight.

Such is the challenge for the superyacht chef, expected to create sumptuous meals around-the-clock for an elite clientele accustomed to the very highest level of culinary expertise.

  It's a grueling vocation, catering to the unusual variety of whims of both guests and crew while also acting as the kitchen's cleaner, waiter and book keeper.

But as many superyacht chefs will tell you, it's also a rare dream job which can pay up to $13,000-a-month and enable the lucky recipient to travel the world aboard a luxury vessel.

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My Comment: There is no question about it .... you have to be good.

A Yacht Chef Shares Her Recipes



A Yacht Chef Shares Recipes For An Elegant New Year’s Party -- Miami Herald

To help us leave a stormy 2012 behind and enjoy smooth sailing into the New Year, we turn to yacht chef Marianne Gardner.

She has spent over two decades on boats traveling through the Caribbean and Mediterranean, around French Polynesia and New Zealand as well as crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. And now she’s dropped anchor in Fort Lauderdale just in time to share her ideas for a New Year’s Eve feast.

You’ll find her recipes collected in Menus and Memoirs of a Yacht Chef, a self-published cookbook. It was four years in the making and contains more than 100 recipes and many memories.

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My Comment: The few recipes that are provided looks very good to me.