What’s It Like to Be a Chef on a Cruise Ship?

Food with Mark Bittman

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4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Wolfgang Maier, Executive Culinary Director of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, talks to Mark and Kate about what it's like to work with more than 400 other chefs, making 6000 meals a day; the difference between cooking for staff and cooking for guests (and the best thing about cooking for that many people); the most commonly ordered food; and how alcohol consumption has changed.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Bitman and welcome to food. As always, you can email us at Food at
0:08.1	Markbitman.com and please check out our newsletter and our website at bitmanproject.com.
0:14.9	The newsletter comes out at least three times a week. The website is loaded with reliable,
0:24.7	wonderful, flavorful, simple, time-tested,
0:31.0	and me-tested recipes. More being added each week. It's a wonderful website, which we've just put a ton of work into. So I think you should take a look at that. And please do subscribe.
0:35.9	Subscribe to this podcast, too too and rate it and recommend
0:38.7	it to your friends notable items on the website from last week are an excerpt from matthew
0:45.3	holtman's book hungry beautiful animals the joyful case for going vegan it's got a great
0:51.6	story about how to navigate a family thanksgiving as a vegan worthwhile reading even if you're a non-vegan because it's got a great story about how to navigate a family Thanksgiving as a vegan
0:54.7	worthwhile reading, even if you're a non-vegan, because it's pretty funny.
0:59.1	And a piece of out Thai food with nine recipes.
1:03.0	That's a real beauty, too.
1:04.6	So check that out.
1:06.0	And do stay tuned.
1:07.4	I'll be right back.
1:32.7	This is a show about my friend Wolfgang Mayer, who is the executive culinary director of Regent Seventh-Cease cruises.
1:47.6	I met Wolfgang first on a cruise that left from Lisbon and wound up in Barcelona and went via the Canary Islands, kind of an odd off the coast of Spain and Africa and then through the Mediterranean trip that was quite fabulous, really wonderful.
1:52.9	Anyway, Wolfgang and I became friends.
1:54.5	We did a couple of cooking demonstrations together.
1:57.1	He toured me around the ship and the stores, which are, as you can imagine, large, to say the least, like Walkins the size of your apartment or bigger than my apartment.
2:08.4	And we ate many great meals together and talked about food and life at sea and so on.
2:13.4	Obviously, he's a representative of Regent 17 cruises, and obviously I'm a supporter of Regent.
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