Galley Guru: Effortless Gourmet Cooking Afloat [Paperback]

Lisa Hayden-Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2008

For the cook who sails and the sailor who cooks, the Galley Guru is a connoisseur s guide to simple ways to keep your grip in the galley. Prepare, preserve, and present, from a tiny space, real food that would not be ashamed to have come from a gourmet kitchen many times the size. Great cooking takes to the water as Lisa Hayden-Miller, the Galley Guru, presents fare with a flair. From survival food to gourmet feast, all 120 recipes are tagged with appropriate sailing conditions, from anchorage to heavy seas. Galley Guru will tempt even the landlubber, for in this 327-page quality paperback, Lisa makes the exotic accessible and the simple, simply wonderful.

Editorial Reviews

Review

No matter how rough the waters, your taste buds will never suffer, thanks to Lisa Hayden-Miller s delectable recipes, cleverly rated for various sea states. Written by a sailor and chef who s as much a connoisseur of words as she is of fine food, this keeper of a cookbook is sure to end up dog-eared and food-splattered from overuse. Delightful! --Suzanne Giesemann, author It s Your Boat Too & Living A Dream

I found three great new ideas in the first ten pages of Galley Guru. I see lots of other ideas I want to try out on our upcoming voyage. --Lin Pardey, author, Care & Feeding of the Sailing Crew

The Galley Guru is a delicious mixture of foods easily prepared and enjoyed on board. I started with Artichoke Patê, followed by Irish Soda Bread and Real New England Clam Chowder. Then went to Chicken Marco Polo and finished with Bananas au Rum. Delicious. Lisa makes the recipes even more enjoyable by her delightful and informative comments about each recipe. --Carlean Johnson, author of the best-selling Six Ingredients or Less Cookbook series

About the Author

Lisa Hayden Miller has a passion for food and far horizons. In the Greek Islands, she ran a gourmet s galley for Celebrity Charters, serving up the bounties of the Med in rough seas or calm.

In Spain she was chef/co-owner of Marbella s popular Pozo Viejo and the very exclusive Upstairs Restaurant during which time she also co-hosted The Good Life radio magazine program and gave cooking classes both in Spanish and English.

After the 'Pozo', came Hasty Pudding, her catering company, serving exceptional cuisine. She took Hasty Pudding from the Costa del Sol to London and New York, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.

In her travels, with countless experiences of cruising the Caribbean, crossing the Atlantic to sail the Mediterranean, as well as collecting a wonderful stock-in-trade of authentic and delicious international recipes, she has learned what works and what doesn t work in a galley.

Her last book Fondue with Friends was published in London by Powerfresh Ltd.

Product Details

• Paperback: 327 pages
• Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications (July 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093983779X
• ISBN-13: 978-0939837793
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute "must-have" for anyone who lives or works aboard boats, September 4, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galley Guru: Effortless Gourmet Cooking Afloat (Paperback)

Galley Guru: Effortless Gourmet Cooking Afloat is a gourmet cookbook especially for anyone faced with the challenging task of cooking on the seas - with strictly limited space that won't necessarily stay stable! Yet gourmet cooking (rather than just subsisting on canned stews) is entirely possible with proper preparation and organization. Recipes ranging from "Jiffy Hot and Sour Soup" to "Pouch Potatoes", "Tequilla Shrimp", "Chocolate Ginger Pie" and much more feature not only step-by-step instructions, but also symbols denoting whether a given dish can easily be prepared at a remote anchorage, while the boat is moving, at heavy seas, etc. "The secret to cooking in a small space, especially one that won't stay still, is to be very organized. Use a plastic shoebox for the spices you need for the meal. You can put spice bottles in it and put it in the sink so it doesn't slide around as you are cooking." An absolute "must-have" for anyone who lives or works aboard boats for an extended period of time, yet is determined to prepare the best possible meals for themselves and others. Galley Guru is also highly recommended for anyone who has to cook in other tight and possibly moving spaces, such as on an RV or a train, or even a cramped college dorm.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A single man's kitchen guide, October 7, 2008

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Fred Lee (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galley Guru: Effortless Gourmet Cooking Afloat (Paperback)

Double wow. No, quadruple wow. As a single male, I have seen a lot of cookbooks, but nothing like yours. I think you have set a new standard for what a cookbook should be. I have even been telling my friends about it, and I have never done that before, not about a book on cooking. I really like the intro with preparation tips and ideas. Which foods to choose and how to best store them is something I have never seen before. The additional stories and descriptions of places provide an indication of your great ability as a writer as well. I look forward to more great recipes and humorous anecdotes.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than a cookbook, September 7, 2008

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Hobbes - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galley Guru: Effortless Gourmet Cooking Afloat (Paperback)

What I really like about this cookbook, aside from the wonderful recipes (a few of which I have tried and found fabulous, such as thai mussels in coconut broth with rum), is the information and stories behind the recipes. One gets to feel that you are there when they were being discovered and made up. You can read it like you would a fiction, except it is not a fiction it is real. I have never read a cookbook before, but I have read this one and I love it. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like more than just an ordinary cookbook, and it's not just for sailing.