Sail with New Freebooters

The chowder recipes posted on NotDelia.com persuaded me to have a go myself. I can buy a wide range of good commercial fish soups here in France, but fresh seafood is more exciting, and I had some time to play.
My local hypermarket has a good seafood counter, although we’re 200Km from the sea, so I [...]

In the days when I used to do transatlantic business trips, my first meal after a jet-lagging flight needed to provide calories and be easily digested. New England Clam Chowder as served at Howard Johnson’s was definitely not exciting, but it fit the bill.
Modern chowders, like bouillabaisse, are made to a wide range of recipes [...]

There are many poor people’s meals that have been transformed into haute cuisine, with expensive restaurants and celebrity chefs vying for the right to claim that they are the only ones to offer the real thing at outrageous prices. Bouillabaisse is one of the better-known.
Tradition places the origins of bouillabaisse with the Phoceans, an ancient [...]

Up on a hill in Cornwall, beside the road from Redruth to Lanner, there’s an ancient pagan well called Figgy Dowdy’s Well. It has a beehive stone roof and steps down to clear water, and used to be a favourite place for little girls to christen their dolls on Good Friday. The iron gate is [...]

I’m indebted to Sophie Turner, my firefighting friend from Tavistock, for this summer sailing snack recipe.
You can make this on board, if you like. No fancy equipment needed.
Ingredients
75 grams butter
225 grams strong cheddar
2 tablepspoons sour cream (why do they put a sell-by date on this stuff?)
4 tablespoons Guinness
4 drops Tabasco sauce
2 tablespoons finely-chopped parsley
freshly-ground black [...]