Library Cookbooks Were All We Needed for a Family Voyage

The circumnavigation never happened, but my childhood was a culinary journey anyway

Kristen Hartke
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4 min readDec 2, 2019

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When I was 11, my family began preparing to sail around the world. My dad, a boat builder, decided that we’d build a 32-foot sailboat, starting with a fiberglass hull that my mother dubbed “a big brown bathtub.” The plan included…

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Kristen Hartke
Heated
Writer for

Journalist, mostly writing about the culture of food, frequent contributor to NPR and the Washington Post; culinary producer for chef Carla Hall.