WHILE MRS. MOTO BATTED the crumpled paper back and forth, I looked through the book Penny had loaned me. It was full of chapters on topics like “dead reckoning” and “points of sail.” To be honest, it all seemed rather dull. Toward the end of the book was a chapter entitled “Cooking on Board.” This was more my kind of thing.
I spent the next hour happily reading about how to store grains so you didn’t get weevils in them (use lots of bay leaves), keeping things (like cheese) in your bilge so they stay cool, 101 uses for your pressure cooker (clearly something I’d have to invest in), and recipes that were easy to make when you were underway. There was even a recipe for brownies.
I put the book down on the table and thought about everything that was involved in cooking on a boat in a tiny g
