{"id":26417,"date":"2015-12-09T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26417"},"modified":"2015-12-09T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T09:00:08","slug":"wednesday-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26417","title":{"rendered":"Cruising: It\u2019s All About The Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chef<\/a>For some of us, there\u2019s an old (and probably outdated) saying that the way to a man\u2019s heart is through his stomach\u2026i.e., good cooks get good husbands. The subjects may have changed but the principle has not.<\/p>\n

Good cooking gets many cruisers.<\/p>\n

As the year winds down, there are two more examples to validate that thinking.<\/p>\n

1) Princess Cruises<\/a> has been hyping the fact that Chef Curtis Stone<\/a> has opened his own restaurant (SHARE<\/i>) on select ships, such as the Ruby Princess<\/a> and Emerald Princess<\/a>, with more likely to follow. The \u201cheadlines\u201d are \u201cChef Curtis Stone invites you\u2026\u201d and \u201cChef Curtis Stone shares his love with this special ingredient\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>and \u201cA favorite family recipe from Chef Curtis Stone\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

2) The new Godmother of the Oceania Sirena<\/a> \u2014 next year \u2014 will be Claudine Pepin, who has the right surname to be in the kitchen creating cuisines-des-spectacles. She is, of course, the daughter of the famous Jacques Pepin<\/a>, who is Oceania\u2019s<\/a> master chef and \"The<\/a>whose restaurant is named after him and on two ships, the Riviera<\/a> and the Marina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See, it\u2019s all about the food.<\/p>\n

While we wouldn\u2019t know Curtis Stone from Oliver Stone (we would know him from Sharon), it\u2019s clear this Aussie \u201cCelebrity Apprentice\u201d grad has many followers and many exquisite recipes. He also has a restaurant in Beverly Hills<\/a> called Maude<\/i>, which means that a lot of the beautiful people enjoy his menus. And now a lot of cruisers will, too.<\/p>\n

Claudine Pepin, also apparently, has some healthy credentials to go with her healthy food. Her Dad, who turns 80 before Christmas, made it big with Julia Child at his side on PBS and now Claudine\u2019s stepping up in class with him at her side. She also had a PBS show \u2014 Cooking With Claudine<\/i> \u2014 and this year has her first cookbook on the shelves for Christmas, Kids Cook French<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As generations of cooking go, both she and Curtis Stone represent a passing of the torch.<\/p>\n

Or at least the spatula.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0MSC Cruises offers 2-for-1 Caribbean fares for balcony guests starting April 23
\n\u2022 Flash from the past:\u00a0Verandah Restaurant to open in June on Queen Mary 2
\n\u2022 Two sets of tourism students spend a day\u00a0on Norwegian Epic in Cannes<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Suite time with Celebrity<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCarnival Fantasy
\n<\/a>5 nights
\nJanuary 27, 2016
\nCharleston<\/a> (return): Nassau<\/a>, Freeport
\n<\/a>Inside: $409
\nCost per day: $81<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some of us, there\u2019s an old (and probably outdated) saying that the way to a man\u2019s heart is through his stomach\u2026i.e., good cooks get good husbands. The subjects may have changed but the principle has not. Good cooking gets many cruisers. As the year winds down, there are two more examples to validate that… Continue reading Cruising: It\u2019s All About The Food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[137,154,200,276,2157,912,72,819,1131,35,2033,52,897,453,900,907,513,811,1924,26,27,957,829],"class_list":["post-26417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-fantasy","tag-celebrity-chefs","tag-claudine-pepin","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-restaurants","tag-cruises","tag-curtis-stone","tag-emerald-princess","tag-food-on-ships","tag-godmothers","tag-jacques-pepin","tag-oceania-cruises","tag-oceania-marina","tag-oceania-riviera","tag-oceania-sirena","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-ruby-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}