Bread, Salt and Wine: An exploration of food of the mobile life

  There are lots of ways to cook a burger these days. Propane, wood, pellets, solar. By far and away, Charcoal beats them all with its flavor, its fire and it's fun .  Charcoal at work- YUM! When I was a little boy, my Dad would wake up in the predawn hours to fill a rusty red weber grill with a pile of Kingsford briquets soaked in lighter fluid. The cigarette would hang from the corner of his mouth as he poured the black dusty wads of chemically pressed charcoal into the belly of the  crumbling rusty kettle as he prepared to make us what we called  “solinol”.  Solinol (or as the Hungarians call it, Szalonna ) is a throwback to the old country where a chunk of fat back is slowly smoked and roasted at the end of a long fork over a campfire and blotted into fresh crusty rye bread before being served to salivating children. The Solvacks handed this gem down to his Granddad and my Dad handed it down to me and a few years back I donned the fire gloves and fork to roast a piece of pork

 You may have been checking out some the many advertiser I have enlisted for this site and some make sense while others don't.  Dog collars, sailboats and coffee all rank high on products that are synonymous with what most people think is my way of life. There was a time however, pretty recently, that I thought of giving up sailing and getting a job as a chef.  I'm told I am pretty good cook and to be honest, I've always wanted to be one. As a little boy I dreamed of being a pizza maker and would love the time I got to make food for friends and family.  But alas, I am just a sailor and writer.  The good part though of running a website is I get to choose my ads and advertisers and you will notice if you look, that there are some great food producers who advertise on this site. Here are a few links that I think your should check out if you love food the way I LOVE food. 

This is our adventure in pressure canning