by Deborah Bach
Nov 15 2011 in Food & Drink, Life Afloat by Deborah Bach
If anyone should know about cooking salmon, it’s LaDonna and Ole Gundersen. The couple has fished Alaska salmon for 24 years and typically dine on the iconic Northwest fish about five times a week, sometimes twice a day. As chief deckhand and cook on their 32-foot boat, LaDonna Rose, LaDonna has churned out literally thousands of salmon meals over [...]
by Deborah Bach
Jul 12 2011 in Currents, Food & Drink by Deborah Bach
Seeing the mounds of mouth-wateringly fresh produce before us at the Olympia Farmers Market, I realized we’d made a major provisioning mistake. The colors and textures were dazzling. Plump red and yellow Rainier cherries. Deliciously crisp snap peas. Gorgeous crimson and white radicchio. Suddenly, the supermarket produce stowed in our boat’s refrigerator seemed limp and sad. [...]
by Deborah Bach
Mar 22 2011 in Food & Drink, Life Afloat by Deborah Bach
Boaters are a characteristically self-sufficient lot, but when it comes to beer, most are satisfied with picking up a case at the grocery store or fuel dock. Not Joey and Candi Tedder. True Northwesterners, they take their beer seriously, to that point that they brew their own while living aboard their Coronado 41, Filthy Whore. [...]
by Deborah Bach
Jun 2 2010 in Food & Drink by Deborah Bach
Wearing a brimmed hat, dark sunglasses and a long beard, the man sits in a rocking chair, eyeing two visitors as they approach. “There’s a rising fee,” he growls. Uh, pardon? “I charge a rising fee if I have to get up,” he says, then cracks a broad smile. “What can I get for you?” [...]
by Deborah Bach
Dec 3 2009 in Food & Drink, People by Deborah Bach
Most boaters aren’t dining on veal carpaccio and lobster bisque with truffle oil while onboard, but then, most aren’t cruising with Richard Lawton. The Everett-based chef has combined his two passions—boating and cooking—into a career that’s spanned three decades, taken him to tropical islands and involved cooking elaborate meals on luxury yachts. His work has [...]
by Deborah Bach
Oct 9 2009 in Food & Drink by Deborah Bach
Rob Scott was living a life some boaters would consider idyllic, spending days as a sailboat captain and evenings working at the restaurant he and wife Angela owned near the San Diego Yacht Club. But the couple gave it all up last year, moving to the Northwest to open a large Italian restaurant, bar and wine [...]
by Deborah Bach
Aug 21 2009 in Food & Drink, Reviews by Deborah Bach
Since summer returned in glorious full force around Puget Sound, it started to seem downright wrong to spend Monday to Friday toiling indoors unless absolutely necessary. So I recruited two girlfriends this week and hit the road to do a little research, research being lunch somewhere near the water in Edmonds. We settled on Arnies [...]
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