All Five Senses

06/15/2026

06/14/2026

**My Love/Hate Relationship with Breakfast**

I love the creativity that swirls around the daily egg special.

I hate getting up early.

I love combining international flavors at breakfast time.

I hate having to remake a poached egg because it is 20 seconds over or under.

I love variations on a theme. One egg can become a hundred different dishes.

I hate making hollandaise.

I love the challenge of creating something memorable from ingredients most people already have in their refrigerator.

I hate that breakfast guests are often in a hurry when the food deserves a little more attention.

I love that breakfast can be elegant enough for a yacht owner, yet comforting enough for a crew member.

I hate that no matter how many breakfasts I have cooked, eggs still have a way of keeping me humble.

But despite the early mornings, the broken yolks, the split hollandaise, and the endless quest for the perfect poached egg, breakfast remains one of my favorite meals to cook. Every day starts with a blank canvas and a few familiar ingredients. The challenge is finding a new way to make them special.

Here are a few of my favorite breakfast dishes from over the years. Which one would you order? 🍳🥑🥩🥒🌶️

06/07/2026

I spend a lot of time thinking about food as both pleasure and function, especially for people who work and play long hours in the heat.
Summer has its own set of nutrition myths complete with online salespeople propping up every cliche.
But the body is not interested in trends nor talking heads. In heat, it must manage cooling, circulation, sweat loss, focus, muscle function, digestion, and recovery. This article tells you exactly how to achieve what is needed in real life. You can find it in my Linkedin profile, Link in bio & in comments below.

05/14/2026

06/24/2025

Call your reps today! If you can’t call then email them with this quick link! Don’t sell public lands. It’s the only decency we have left.

The Senate is proposing to sell off over 250 million acres of public lands in the United States. Contact your Senator today asking them to keep public lands and public hands!

https://www.conservationlands.org/stop_the_sell_off

The Senate is proposing to sell off over 250 million acres of public lands in the United States. Contact your Senator today asking them to keep public lands and public hands!

04/01/2025

Meet Swoon—an artist who turned the streets of New York into a living galley renovating spaces with renegade art and true stylistic vision. Born Caledonia Curry, she started as a young woman quietly wheatpasting hand-cut portraits onto city walls. No signature, no spotlight—just powerful images of real people: neighbors, family, strangers, often women, often overlooked.

What started as late-night art missions turned into a global movement. Swoon became one of the first women to gain widespread recognition in the male-dominated world of street art, and soon her work made it into places like MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her 2014 show, Submerged Motherlands, transformed the museum’s rotunda into a dreamscape of paper trees, floating boats, and a world pulled from memory and myth—a landmark moment that blurred the line between street and fine art.

Her vision has never been confined to gallery walls. She launched Swimming Cities, a fleet of floating sculptural rafts that drifted down rivers like living installations, part sculpture, part adventure. After the earthquake in Haiti, she co-founded Konbit Shelter, building sustainable homes and proving that art could do more than inspire—it could rebuild. Through the Heliotrope Foundation, she continues using creativity to address social crises, turning imagination into action.

Her work—whether a linocut on a wall or a cathedral-like installation—always circles back to people. Their stories. Their resilience. Their right to be seen. Major retrospectives like The Canyon: 1999–2017 and Seven Contemplations trace her evolution from anonymous street artist to global voice, yet her art still carries the intimacy of its early days.

Swoon reminds women that their creativity is powerful, their voices are necessary, and their presence is non-negotiable. She makes art that disrupts, heals, and remembers—and invites others to do the same.

02/15/2024

My love language in 5 pictures.
This dough is made with roasted red bell peppers because food coloring is gross.
The filling is burrata, Parmesan and egg yolk.
The result is deeply flavorful. I served them with a simple clarified butter glaze.
Pasta is love.
If I ever made you pasta, I love you.

09/22/2023

September baking from the road.
I was on one boat but the countries changed rapidly.
A captain once told me: “who cares where you are going all that changes for you is the view.”
It’s true, time off board is limited and unpredictable. So I throw myself into the thrill of creating, and with the right view some day dreaming.
The more internationally diverse the guests and crew are the more creative I can be at all hours of the day.
So here is a bit of casual fun:
Pretzel rolls, black cocoa brownies, mini French style pizzette, homemade bagels waiting for homemade gravlax, cinnamon rolls and raspberry muffins, heirloom tomato tart, lemon gingerbread and bourbon cream trifle, a dinner bread basket with three different homemade breads, sourdough brioche slider buns and a crispy style pepperoni pizza.

Which one would you start with first? Baking my own breads let’s me control more in terms of portion size, texture and ultimately overall meal balance.

It’s exhausting to bake 9-10 different doughs, 4-5 different pastries and 2-4 different formal desserts in a day. It’s exhausting and I love it. The extra work becomes a weird addiction and I’m here for it.

Cheers from the road.