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Windjammer Cooking

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This book is part cookbook and part schooner trip souvenir from one of the first acknowledged cooks in the Maine schooner fleet. The first part of the book is filled with a basic how-to of the week's adventure on one of the fleet's schooners in the late 70's/early 80's before fresh water showers and diesel stoves. The second part is basic, tasty, made-from-stratch home cooking with the emphasis on easy, simple ingredients with a New England slant. Dee's stetches and notes bring a light humorous tone to the work and my copy of the book is much thumbed and food splotched on the buttermilk coffee cake, brownies and anadama bread pages. Many other cookbooks have been written for the fleet but you'll still find this book in all those schooner's galleys as a reference.

While working on a Maine windjammer as a "galley slave" (i.e. cook) during my college years, this and "The Joy of Cooking" were the only cook books in the galley. We managed to feed 35 passengers three delicious feasts a day using mostly "Windjammer Cooking." Some twenty years later, this book is still my cooking bible. I was delighted to see that it is still in print, as my original copy is quite stained and held together with a rubber band. The Lobster Bisque and blueberry coffee cake are my favorites and the sherried chicken and rice pilaf are also delicious. Friends are constantly asking for the recipes for these, good, old-fashioned dishes.