Beyond Gruel: Adventures in the Galley: and Clear Sailing to Simplicity and Happiness

By Bob Witty

What do food, stories, and a sailboat galley have in common? They all can be used to share and to encourage creativity, determination, simplicity, and happiness. This book gives totally practical ways to express a joy that can bind life together: Learning to do the most with less and identifying what that the correct "less" is to achieve the desired "more". The author, a trained chef and skipper with a can-do attitude and a sense of humor, will guide you in making wonderful food with the minimum equipment, space, cost, and fuss. You too can easily prepare delicious meals that will enhance your voyage, whether at sea or on land. The author also lays out what sailing, culinary school, information technology, and other observations can teach about life, happiness, and simplicity.The author shares what works for him, with dozens of user-friendly recipes and tips, so that you too will identify your less to achieve more, choose determination over inaction when difficulty is perceived, and embrace creativity and diversity as better directions than the beaten path in this misinformation age we live in. Rich with anecdotes about work, hard-won wisdom, sailing, culinary school, and kitchen experiments, Beyond Gruel will help you overcome constraints in the kitchen and outside it during future voyages. Bring this book into your galley, camper kitchen, tiny house, or studio apartment to go beyond the gruel of complacency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1676375961
• ISBN13: 9781676375968
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"