Passport to Flavor: 100 Global Dishes You Can Make Anywhere

Cheshire, the private yacht chef behind the TikTok account @abbyinthegalley, brings armchair travelers on a high-seas food adventure from her ship’s “small but mighty” kitchen in this pleasurable debut cookbook. It’s structured around an around-the-world “port crawl” visiting 14 locations—including Ireland, Greece, India, and Mexico—and offering recipes for a complete day’s menu, from breakfast to dessert plus cocktails, appetizers, soups, and salads at each port of call. The menus feature local flavors and fresh ingredients sourced en route at farmers markets. Bahamian johnny cake gets slathered with coconut-lime butter and mango jam for breakfast, while dinner offers seared scallops, corn, and sweet potato chowder in coconut milk. There’s onion soup and seared duck breast for dinner in Nice; bánh mì breakfast sandwiches in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam; beef bulgogi with cucumber kimchi in Seoul; and mai tai cocktails in Hawaii. A final chapter of “Provisional Pointers” offers tips on efficiency and produce storage, while sidebars throughout encourage substitutions and teach simple cooking techniques. The recipes, while not particularly innovative, are dependable adaptations of classic international dishes that home cooks, even in landlocked kitchens, can easily source and prepare. It’s good fun. (Mar.)