Thread: Cruise Line Cookbooks

Originally Posted by MCcruiser

I actually thought the food was very good on my Carnival cruise. It was the only thing that was any good at all.

Ditto!!

Originally Posted by cruisin' chick

On one of our Princess cruises, our waiter did hold up the book and asked if we wanted to buy it. We didn't -- not sure if I can do any of the recipes justice. Plus I figured that if a high percentage of the recipes are seafood, which I don't eat nor cook, then it's probably not something for my shelf.

What? You don't like seafood? I would eat it even if I ate no other kind of meat. Shrimp, scallops, crab, you name it, I want anything that lives in the water except anchovies.

I would have asked the waiter if there are many seafood recipes. Of course I can't be as good as their chefs, but my sister loves to cook and eat many kinds of foods so she probably can do some of them right even if I can't. And I can't imagine fettuchine alfredo, one of my favorite foods, being bad even if I make it wrong.

You name any food and there will be people who do not like it. And not only do I not like sea food (the last time I tried salmon at a co-worker's house, I was gagging and couldn't eat more than a biteful, and I'm sure it wasn't her cooking, I am allergic to shellfish. Even cross-contamination (if a serving utensil touches shrimp, for example), my throat closes up and I need immediate help. And that's not a rare allergy from what I understand.

I also can not digest yogurt in any way, shape or form.

Now beef I've given up for the most part on the advice of my doctor. As well as spicy food. I eat a lot of chicken and pasta on my cruises.