Storing Food without Refrigeration

With a little planning and foresight, refrigeration is absolutely not necessary. In this book, the author discusses how to store food and make delicious meals without the use of a refrigerator. From milk and cheese to eggs and meat, the book lays out ways anyone can have home-cooked meals without artificially freezing or cooling their food.

Broken down into handy categories, this guide covers how to properly wash, store, treat, and cook your food for maximum flavor and usability. Written by a dedicated sailor whose own skills were honed on months-long journeys, the tips in this guide can be put to use by anyone trying to avoid heavy, power-sucking refrigerators.

• Over56 photos to help you every step of the way
• Over 60 main dish ideas and a 4-day sample meal plan
• What you can easily carry with you while boating, hiking, camping, and travelling in your RV
• Exactly how to store fresh food without refrigeration
• What produce can last a month or more, and what needs to be eaten within days
• Great alternative products and what foods never need to be refrigerated
• Easy ways to help foods last longer without spoiling
• How to make sour cream, yogurt and ricotta cheese without refrigerated ingredients
• The pros and cons of canning and dehydrating your own
• Simple techniques for cooking with canned meats to preserve the flavor and texture

Since 2002 Carolyn Shearlock has lived aboard a sailboat and cruised full time with her husband. In 2010, she created her website “The Boat Galley” to help others navigate the challenges of provisioning, storing food and cooking aboard a small boat. In response to reader questions, the site has expanded to include buying a boat and gear, living on a boat, cruising and chartering, boat work and potential problems. In 2012, she and Jan Irons published The Boat Galley Cookbook, a collection of 800 everyday recipes and cooking tips they’d each collected while cruising. Carolyn, her husband Dave and dog Paz now live aboard their second cruising sailboat a Gemini Catamaran, Barefoot Gal.