Food In Many Forms

Determining the menu for our Sicily trip was the easy part. The larger challenge is making sure you have a solid team for provisioning, and that your crew members are on board to help prepare meals. Here are some other considerations when you plan your sailing trip to the Aeolian islands: Availability of different foods Don't assume that you will be able to prepare your favorite taco recipe or chicken teriyaki in Italy. Although there were a few international foods available, the best availability is always going to be for local foods and local recipes. Through my research beforehand, I learned that Italians generally eat a light, sweet breakfast, like biscotti or pastry with coffee. Our group tends to eat a lot of yogurt for breakfast, and muesli is pretty common in Europe, so that was a good combo (one of our crew mates mixed the yogurt with muesli, banana and nutella - yum!). Seafood is popular in Sicily, so I knew there would be plenty of tuna, sardines and anchovies. We rarely...

Each time we go on a sailing trip for a week at some marvelous destination, I look up what other people have done for meals. It always feels like there are very few resources available, so I thought I would add my menus to the collective knowledge base, talk about what was easy to find, what was hard to find, and what I want to remember for next time. For your reference, we sailed with Dream Yacht Charter out of Portorosa Marina in mid-September. This is considered shoulder season for the Aeolian islands. The weather felt like shoulder season, but the vibe on the islands was "off-season" - a lot less nightlife and fewer people. The Menu  Saturday   Portorosa        Sunday Panarella by dinner  Monday Panarella  Tuesday Panarella > Stromboli   Wednesday Stromboli > Salina > Lipari  Thursday Lipari > Vulcano  Friday Vulcano > Lipari >  Mari...