Sea Fare: A Culinary Odyssey [Paperback]

Victoria Allman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 3, 2009

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.

Editorial Reviews

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 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: NorLightsPress.com (April 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935254014
• ISBN-13: 978-1935254010
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.1 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,486,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Victoria Allman, author SEAsoned: A Chef's Journey with Her Captain, has been following her stomach around the globe for thirteen years as a yacht chef. She writes about her floating culinary odyssey through Europe, the Caribbean, Nepal, Vietnam, Africa and the South Pacific in her first book, Sea Fare: A Chef's Journey Across the Ocean.

Both of Victoria's books, Sea Fare and SEAsoned, have won Florida's Royal Palm Literary Award for First Place in Travel.

For four years, Victoria was a columnist for Dockwalk, an International magazine for crew members aboard yachts. Her column, Dishing It Up, was a humorous look at cooking for the rich and famous in an ever-moving galley.

She also regularly contributes tales of her tasty adventures to Marina Life Magazine, OnDeck Skipper, and OceanLines.

You can read more of her food-driven escapades through her web-site, www.victoriaallman.com

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Food for a traveler's thoughts! February 18, 2011

By Scott Angelo

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

An interesting view into the exclusive lives and travels of yacht crew! In my next life I'm coming back as a yacht chef! It was very interesting to read about these exotic locations and then to cook some of the recipes gives you unique insight to these fantastic far away places. Yummm! I have already started reading her second book "Seasoned" on my ipad with the Nook app. and I'm loving it too!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious Read! February 10, 2011

By Annamck

Format:Paperback

I am currently working as a chef on a private yacht as well and love Victoria's book! It truly captures the whole cooking/ yachting experience. It's the perfect gift for family or friends that want to know what a typical day in this industry can consist of. I'm always on the hunt for new recipes and have had the chance to test out Victoria's...delicious! This book had me laughing and rooting for the romance between Victoria and Patrick! Can't wait to read her latest book, SEAsoned, and continue their adventure!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Exotic Locales and Excellent Recipes: What's Not to Like? February 24, 2010

By Deborah Sharp

Format:Paperback

Victoria Allman's Sea Fare is a ''Culinary Odyssey'' indeed. But unlike the original, Homer's Odyssey, I didn't have to struggle to get through this one. Nicely written, great page-turner, bursting with flavor and fun. I can almost smell the exotic spices and see the ports of call this yacht chef-author writes about. My mouth watered at the yummy recipes. Looking forward to Victoria Allman's next literary voyage.