Latest / The Overland Journal Podcast / Adventure Chef Adam Glick talks life at sea, and inspiring ways of cooking from his travels
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- 0:07Speaker 1: All right, so welcome to the Overland Journal podcast.
- 0:10Speaker 2: I'm your host Scott Brady, and I'm here with chef
- 0:12Speaker 2: Adam Glick. Thank for being on the podcast today, man,
- 0:15Speaker 2: appreciate it. Happy to be here. There's a bunch of
- 0:18Speaker 2: things about your life that I found really interesting in
- 0:20Speaker 2: doing some research your on your bio. One of them was,
- 0:24Speaker 2: not only have you done a lot of land based travel,
- 0:26Speaker 2: but you've also traveled a lot of years of your
- 0:29Speaker 2: life on the ocean. Why don't you give the audience
- 0:33Speaker 2: some background on your journeys as a traveler, just so
- 0:36Speaker 2: people know where you came from.
- 0:38Speaker 1: It's a bit of a long story, to be honest.
- 0:40Speaker 3: I grew up overseas, so I think I was kind
- 0:43Speaker 3: of born into this life of travel, sure, from the
- 0:46Speaker 3: day I came out. Yeah, sure, you know, having lived
- 0:50Speaker 3: in or been in probably a couple dozen countries before
- 0:54Speaker 3: I was even in high school.
- 0:56Speaker 1: You know that's not that's not normal. No, it's not,
- 0:59Speaker 1: I would say most kids.
- 1:01Speaker 3: And so there I was high school in the Middle
- 1:05Speaker 3: East in Kuwait during nine to eleven, towers drop and
- 1:10Speaker 3: riots breakout in the streets, and so we get evacuated
- 1:12Speaker 3: and I come back to California, and that's where I
- 1:15Speaker 3: finished high school.
- 1:17Speaker 1: That's what kind of led me into.
- 1:19Speaker 3: College, which would drop out and dropped out of Chico
- 1:23Speaker 3: State and went to San Diego for culinary school. And
- 1:26Speaker 3: it was that transition down to San Diego that would
- 1:29Speaker 3: eventually put me.
- 1:30Speaker 1: On a boat. Yeah. Sure, right, So.
- 1:33Speaker 3: By going from this sort of just generally nomadic lifestyle
- 1:39Speaker 3: as a child to a blooming adult continuing the nomadic lifestyle,
- 1:45Speaker 3: and then a successful career on yachts as a chef
- 1:48Speaker 3: for fifteen almost fifteen years, continuing to sail around the world.
- 1:54Speaker 3: And so to sum that up, I've been traveling since
- 1:57Speaker 3: the day I was born.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Well, and that leads some interesting questions.
- 2:01Speaker 2: So as a young person, I mean, I grew up
- 2:04Speaker 2: in southern California, but I didn't travel at all until
- 2:06Speaker 2: I was in the military. So to travel as a
- 2:10Speaker 2: young person as a child, how do you think that
- 2:12Speaker 2: formed some of your perspective, not only on life, but
- 2:15Speaker 2: on travel in general.
- 2:17Speaker 1: You know, that's a great question.
- 2:18Speaker 3: I think just growing up overseas is such a unique
- 2:23Speaker 3: experience for any kid, and while I wouldn't necessarily consider
- 2:28Speaker 3: doing it with my children, I think it's really kind
- 2:31Speaker 3: of it uproots you. It keeps you from understanding what
- 2:35Speaker 3: roots are. And at some point you have in your life,
- 2:39Speaker 3: you're going to have to develop this sense of place.
- 2:42Speaker 3: And most kids have that, you know, most kids. I'm
- 2:45Speaker 3: not saying all kids, but a lot of kids have that,
- 2:48Speaker 3: this sort of sense of place, and I just never
- 2:49Speaker 3: had that. So going into adulthood, there's sort of a
- 2:52Speaker 3: flaw there. There's like a twisted circuit and I don't
- 2:56Speaker 3: need a place, just keep rolling, go to the next place, right,
- 3:00Speaker 3: And so I don't know, I think to answer your question,
- 3:03Speaker 3: it's just it's just a really interesting upbringing because it's
- 3:06Speaker 3: going to forge a future that you know, pretty abnormal.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.
- 3:12Speaker 2: So what have you done for yourself then, to give
- 3:15Speaker 2: your that sense of space where you feel that you
- 3:18Speaker 2: are rooted despite the fact that you were always moving.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Well, today I have a cabin, okay, and I share
- 3:24Speaker 3: my space and sorry, my time with my cabin and
- 3:27Speaker 3: my my camper, my Shart camper. Now that said, that's
- 3:31Speaker 3: a fairly recent thing, you know, the last couple of years.
- 3:34Speaker 3: As it was in my twenties, it was a very
- 3:36Speaker 3: different game. I didn't have a cabin, I couldn't afford
- 3:39Speaker 3: a cabin, and so.
- 3:41Speaker 2: You were in a cabin on a boat, very small
- 3:43Speaker 2: cabin on a boat exactly.
- 3:44Speaker 3: And so when you're working as a crew member on
- 3:46Speaker 3: any boat, there's a very high likelihood that you're going
- 3:48Speaker 3: to get laid off at some point. And it's not
- 3:50Speaker 3: because of your performance. It's because the boat's going to
- 3:53Speaker 3: get docked for months on end, or it's going into
- 3:55Speaker 3: the shipyard, or they're selling it. You know, there's a
- 3:57Speaker 3: thousand reasons why crew get laid off. So this is
- 4:01Speaker 3: just an ongoing thing with crew environment. And the beauty
- 4:04Speaker 3: of it was I always had a dock card to
- 4:07Speaker 3: a marina, which man I had a pool, a gym,
- 4:10Speaker 3: a shower, you know, the kind of the necessities. What
- 4:14Speaker 3: I didn't have was my own space, right, And so
- 4:17Speaker 3: when I would get laid off, there could be two weeks,
- 4:20Speaker 3: it could be a month. It could be three months
- 4:23Speaker 3: before I'm back out on the water. So what do
- 4:25Speaker 3: you do with that time? Well, that's when I figured
- 4:27Speaker 3: out overlanding vans make some vs. I just kind of
- 4:31Speaker 3: always lived in this mobile unit because it worked with
- 4:36Speaker 3: my marine lifestyle.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense.
- 4:39Speaker 2: I mean For me, my cabin is a sailboat in
- 4:42Speaker 2: a marina, so I kind of get the the ability
- 4:45Speaker 2: to have the ability to have a place to go
- 4:48Speaker 2: to is really important, and there is something very special
- 4:52Speaker 2: about the water. When I crossed the Pacific from Long
- 4:55Speaker 2: Beach to the Aleutian Islands, I learned a lot about
- 4:58Speaker 2: myself on that journey. What have you learned about yourself
- 5:02Speaker 2: on these big oceanic crossings. What kind of lesson has
- 5:06Speaker 2: the ocean been for you?
- 5:08Speaker 3: An anytime someone can sail across, say the Pacific Ocean,
- 5:13Speaker 3: that's a journey and you're yes, you're going to learn
- 5:16Speaker 3: a ton about yourself. For me, as a chef, I
- 5:19Speaker 3: learned a ton about how to make that even work.
- 5:23Speaker 3: How do you feed a crew or multiple people over
- 5:27Speaker 3: the course of weeks out of a tiny little galley,
- 5:30Speaker 3: you know, on a boat that's on a thirty degree
- 5:33Speaker 3: heel for twenty four hours a day. It's a very
- 5:37Speaker 3: different way to be a chef. And so going back
- 5:40Speaker 3: to that kind of I didn't know I was forging
- 5:42Speaker 3: this really odd lifestyle, but it was happening every day. Sure,
- 5:46Speaker 3: how many chefs cook under those circumstances where a tomato
- 5:49Speaker 3: can just roll right off the counter and you know,
- 5:52Speaker 3: and I could just you know, one time I had
- 5:55Speaker 3: a captain.
- 5:56Speaker 1: He just goes full heel on a sale.
- 5:58Speaker 3: I mean raise the sails and the whole boat goes
- 6:01Speaker 3: yeah right, and so almost knocked down there. I had
- 6:05Speaker 3: multiple cakes in the oven. It was super important that
- 6:07Speaker 3: these cakes baked. And yeah, all the cakes fell on
- 6:11Speaker 3: the bottom of the oven. The whole fire alarm system
- 6:14Speaker 3: went off, right, It was a big problem. And so
- 6:17Speaker 3: these kinds of little variables are nothing that any other
- 6:22Speaker 3: chef has to deal with, and so it just makes you,
- 6:25Speaker 3: i would say, stronger, just a better chef. And and
- 6:29Speaker 3: these these big crossings, that's what's really gonna show you
- 6:33Speaker 3: your weaknesses.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I made well I'm not even a
- 6:37Speaker 2: don't even just consider myself a cook, but I made
- 6:40Speaker 2: a lot of burritos. So because it was like the
- 6:42Speaker 2: one it's like the way you didn't have to clean
- 6:44Speaker 2: a plate because you just like drop it. Yeah, So yeah,
- 6:47Speaker 2: we found it was interesting. I found myself strapped to
- 6:51Speaker 2: the stove a lot of times because of the sea state.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, there's such a thing as straps. Yeah,
- 6:58Speaker 1: for the chef, that's what I did you go ahead
- 7:00Speaker 1: and hook yourself in on both sides. Totally can't. You
- 7:03Speaker 1: can't fall out.
- 7:04Speaker 2: It was the only thing that I could find that
- 7:05Speaker 2: would work when we were really in heavy sea stam
- 7:08Speaker 2: was you got to just kind of strap yourself to.
- 7:10Speaker 3: The crossing or any major crossing that's let's say more
- 7:14Speaker 3: than two weeks at sea. There's also a huge translation
- 7:18Speaker 3: between that experience and going out in an overlanding environment.
- 7:23Speaker 1: In two weeks. Yeah, you're on your own devices. You
- 7:26Speaker 1: are out there. There's no calling the coast guard.
- 7:29Speaker 3: No, when you're one thousand miles off shore, the coast
- 7:32Speaker 3: guard says, good luck. They might come get you, but yeah,
- 7:36Speaker 3: the odds of them getting there in time, no, probably
- 7:39Speaker 3: not going to happen.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Yeah, once you're out of about that one hundred and
- 7:41Speaker 2: eighty two hundred miles from the shore in the middle
- 7:44Speaker 2: of the Pacific. I remember one point we were a
- 7:46Speaker 2: thousand miles from land in any direction and sixteen thousand
- 7:49Speaker 2: feet of water underneath us ahaps. We were becalmed and
- 7:53Speaker 2: just became a giant swimming pool, which was nice.
- 7:55Speaker 1: We needed that too. You got to jump into the water,
- 7:57Speaker 1: so nice.
- 7:58Speaker 2: So that was great talking about that translation between this.
- 8:02Speaker 2: You know, fifteen years you spent on the ocean to overlanding.
- 8:06Speaker 2: What have you drawn with you? What skills did you
- 8:09Speaker 2: learn on the boats that you found to be super
- 8:12Speaker 2: useful for land based travel?
- 8:14Speaker 3: You know, I think in my classes I like to
- 8:17Speaker 3: say that the best food I ever made was on
- 8:21Speaker 3: the dock. And what that means is, I can't make
- 8:25Speaker 3: the cake on the thirty degree heel out in the ocean.
- 8:28Speaker 3: I can't serve the kremberlay easily. I can't serve soups,
- 8:34Speaker 3: you know, I can't. There's a lot that I can't
- 8:36Speaker 3: do out on the ocean. And so as that would
- 8:39Speaker 3: translate to overlanding. Here we are off road.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Major. Let's say we're going up the Rubicon Trail and
- 8:46Speaker 1: you are going thirty degrees to thirty degrees all day? Yeah,
- 8:50Speaker 1: what do you think happens to all your gear?
- 8:53Speaker 3: And then it gets really interesting to me because we spend,
- 8:56Speaker 3: as you can see, countless dollars and effort to create
- 9:01Speaker 3: the perfect rig, and yet no one's thinking about the
- 9:05Speaker 3: food that you're bringing.
- 9:07Speaker 1: We're still just kind of sticking to our old ways.
- 9:09Speaker 3: We're not really cooking anything special, And yet We have
- 9:13Speaker 3: every imaginable piece of technology to have a proper meal
- 9:18Speaker 3: out anywhere. The lesson learned answer your question is, after
- 9:22Speaker 3: all that time at sea, the best food I made
- 9:26Speaker 3: was on the dock. It's your dock, docks probably your home,
- 9:30Speaker 3: and you're going out for a weekend. You're going out
- 9:32Speaker 3: for maybe a week max. Okay, So if the dock
- 9:36Speaker 3: was your home, all you need to do is prep
- 9:39Speaker 3: those vegetables prior to leave in the house. Why would
- 9:42Speaker 3: I bring five big, round VOLUMEUS peppers when I could
- 9:47Speaker 3: have removed the tops that were excess, removed the seeds
- 9:50Speaker 3: that I was going to throw away, and go ahead
- 9:53Speaker 3: and slice them up and put them in a ziplock bag,
- 9:55Speaker 3: roll it up like a T shirt in your backpack.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Yeah, get them ready to go, and get them ready
- 9:59Speaker 1: to go. Yeah.
- 10:00Speaker 2: And as they say, I mean an army marches on
- 10:03Speaker 2: its stomach. And I think that most of us can
- 10:05Speaker 2: tolerate a few days of poorly prepared or packaged foods.
- 10:09Speaker 2: But you know, I remember when we crossed Antarctica. You
- 10:13Speaker 2: just you can only eat that stuff for so long
- 10:15Speaker 2: before you physically start to deteriorate from it. And this
- 10:18Speaker 2: amount of sodium in those backpacking meals, and that was
- 10:22Speaker 2: the biggest lesson for us, is you've got to cook
- 10:25Speaker 2: food that gives you that sense of home, maybe that
- 10:28Speaker 2: sense of place that you talk about. So, what are
- 10:30Speaker 2: some of your favorite meals to cook that give you
- 10:33Speaker 2: that kind of sense of home and that heartiness and
- 10:36Speaker 2: that it brings a smile to people's faces?
- 10:38Speaker 1: You know.
- 10:39Speaker 3: I tend to lean on country cooking, okay, you know,
- 10:42Speaker 3: just that kind of chuck wagon style. It's just we
- 10:46Speaker 3: created those recipes as Americans based on this Western culture
- 10:50Speaker 3: that we're so fascinated with. And I'm fascinated by the
- 10:54Speaker 3: fact that we fed ourselves organically across the country, you know,
- 10:59Speaker 3: and it's just so cool to me. And so a
- 11:02Speaker 3: chicken fried steak with some country styled mashed potatoes and
- 11:06Speaker 3: just some really good corn casserole or corn bread or
- 11:10Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I love the idea of
- 11:12Speaker 3: cooking with coals and cast iron and just that old
- 11:15Speaker 3: school Western style, the chuck wagon.
- 11:19Speaker 2: If someone was to buy one piece of cast iron
- 11:22Speaker 2: cookwar because they're heavy, you're only going to bring one,
- 11:25Speaker 2: what would you suggest that they consider?
- 11:28Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's a great question.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Actually, I think the go to would be a Dutch oven.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Like an eight inch, ten inch, twelve inch What would
- 11:35Speaker 1: you suggest? It really comes down to I don't care.
- 11:37Speaker 3: See, I don't carry a Dutch oven because it's so humbersome.
- 11:41Speaker 3: They're heavy, they're heavy, and they're huge. But it is
- 11:44Speaker 3: the ultimate cast iron. If you know, if you're going
- 11:47Speaker 3: out for weeks, I would want it right. If I'm
- 11:50Speaker 3: going out and I know that this weekend I'm making fajitas, Yeah,
- 11:54Speaker 3: and I'm.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Not going to bring my Dutch of it.
- 11:56Speaker 3: I'm going to bring the appropriate pan, right, I'm going
- 11:58Speaker 3: to prior proper prepation. Yeah, sure, with being at the house,
- 12:02Speaker 3: having my gear and just bringing what I need for
- 12:05Speaker 3: the recipe at hand. And that's the getting ready at
- 12:09Speaker 3: the dock element, right, I know my recipes, I brought
- 12:13Speaker 3: the right food, I prepped it all down, I've got
- 12:16Speaker 3: the proper cast iron.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Let's go and only bring what you need.
- 12:20Speaker 2: It looks like you've got a Ford Super Duty with
- 12:23Speaker 2: a four world camper on a tray bed. What is
- 12:27Speaker 2: that the first vehicle that you've built or is that
- 12:29Speaker 2: kind of an evolution of learning along the way.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 12:32Speaker 3: Actually, as I mentioned earlier, being on boats. I went
- 12:36Speaker 3: through a series of different vans eventually quickly four by
- 12:40Speaker 3: four van, And it got to the point once I
- 12:43Speaker 3: moved to Oregon, got the cabin. You know, it's just
- 12:46Speaker 3: I realized I need something tougher. Yeah, I need something
- 12:49Speaker 3: a little bit more capable.
- 12:51Speaker 1: It's not uncommon for me.
- 12:52Speaker 3: To have to cut up a four foot diameter redwood
- 12:57Speaker 3: to get down the trail and winch it out of
- 12:59Speaker 3: thea and you know, in the snow.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Sure, that kind of stuff happens.
- 13:03Speaker 3: And you know, I just couldn't imagine ever having done
- 13:05Speaker 3: that with one of my vans. So to answer your question,
- 13:08Speaker 3: the build is the evolution of me leaving a van.
- 13:12Speaker 2: What about your truck have you found to be the
- 13:15Speaker 2: most effective, Like, if you were to look at the
- 13:17Speaker 2: maybe your top three or four things that you really
- 13:20Speaker 2: love about your vehicle that you could share with the audience,
- 13:22Speaker 2: what's been those learnings those takeaways?
- 13:25Speaker 3: I think, for one, I think there's a misconception that
- 13:28Speaker 3: a full sized truck can't get the job done, you know,
- 13:31Speaker 3: down the trail. Sure, admittedly there are occasions where I
- 13:35Speaker 3: have to do through three points four points turn sure
- 13:38Speaker 3: to make it happen.
- 13:39Speaker 1: But you know, I'll take a four point turn to
- 13:41Speaker 1: have comfort most of the time.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Yeah, and I have dogs, So that whole back section
- 13:47Speaker 3: of my extended cab is dog devoted, you know, and
- 13:51Speaker 3: they've got the palace back there, and it just makes
- 13:53Speaker 3: me feel happy knowing that they're happy and talking.
- 13:56Speaker 2: About dogs because so many Overlanders love them. How did
- 14:00Speaker 2: you decide to travel with dogs? And how is that
- 14:03Speaker 2: working for you? What little tips can you give for
- 14:05Speaker 2: having dogs in a four wheel camper?
- 14:07Speaker 1: Right?
- 14:07Speaker 3: Well, what's interesting is I didn't I didn't actually ask
- 14:10Speaker 3: for my dog. I had no intentions of getting a dog,
- 14:14Speaker 3: not even going that down that road. And as I
- 14:17Speaker 3: was driving through West Texas. You ever been through West Texas,
- 14:21Speaker 3: There's not much there, not a whole lot there.
- 14:23Speaker 1: I was.
- 14:24Speaker 3: I was driving through, and I pulled over to alleviate myself.
- 14:27Speaker 3: And as I was getting ready to leave, I hear
- 14:30Speaker 3: the scratching, proper scratching on my door and I look
- 14:33Speaker 3: out the window and it's my current dog.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's text you know, and maybe he found you, Yeah,
- 14:39Speaker 1: found me.
- 14:40Speaker 3: And so this connection that I have with texts finding
- 14:43Speaker 3: him in Texas that day, it was a pretty rare circumstance,
- 14:48Speaker 3: and it definitely changed my life because it wasn't long
- 14:51Speaker 3: after that that I realized I wanted land. You know
- 14:54Speaker 3: that that was never even a consideration for me. I
- 14:56Speaker 3: could have happily been a nomad the rest of my life.
- 14:59Speaker 3: But I think the was actually kind of a tipping form, like, Okay,
- 15:02Speaker 3: maybe maybe you are getting a little older, maybe you
- 15:05Speaker 3: do want something a little more stable, And then here
- 15:09Speaker 3: comes the cabin.
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- 16:14Speaker 1: in your travels now you had this companion that was
- 16:17Speaker 1: always there and he relied on you completely, and then
- 16:21Speaker 1: ultimately we rely on our dogs completely too.
- 16:23Speaker 3: So having him on the travels has just been a godsend.
- 16:28Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine doing any of the things I do
- 16:30Speaker 3: without him.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's It's such an ancient relationship humans
- 16:36Speaker 2: and dogs.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Fascinating. That's really cool. Yeah.
- 16:39Speaker 2: So, in all of your travels around the world, what
- 16:42Speaker 2: was some of your most favorite ports of call or
- 16:46Speaker 2: destinations that you've been to, and what were some of
- 16:49Speaker 2: the things you learned from that.
- 16:51Speaker 3: I have been pretty much all the way around multiple
- 16:54Speaker 3: times and fifty six countries to day, Fiji Islands probably
- 17:01Speaker 3: my favorite.
- 17:02Speaker 1: You like that, I could go back, Okay, I've got
- 17:04Speaker 1: my list.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Then, my first boat job was up in Alaska, and
- 17:10Speaker 3: so there's a nostalgic sort of just heart and soul
- 17:14Speaker 3: somewhere in there. I'm probably going to send my rig
- 17:18Speaker 3: up to Alaska. I'm thinking maybe next year or the
- 17:21Speaker 3: year after. But I just miss it to death. I mean,
- 17:23Speaker 3: I just I'll never forget the just how big that
- 17:26Speaker 3: place is and how small it makes you feel.
- 17:29Speaker 2: And the ocean gets pretty rowdy. I like pretty rowdy.
- 17:33Speaker 2: I like a good rowdy ocean bearing sea will get
- 17:36Speaker 2: it'll get your man out of you.
- 17:38Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, just the lifestyle and the
- 17:42Speaker 3: people are some of the nicest people I've ever met.
- 17:44Speaker 3: The way they eat and the way they feed themselves
- 17:46Speaker 3: is something to behold, something that we don't understand as Americans,
- 17:50Speaker 3: and we probably never will had we understood it. It
- 17:54Speaker 3: was probably in the early nineteen hundreds or some in
- 17:57Speaker 3: the eighteen hundreds, but when we developed microves that that
- 18:01Speaker 3: all went away.
- 18:02Speaker 2: So this is a personal question. Then what did you
- 18:05Speaker 2: find about how the Fijians ate that was so appealing
- 18:09Speaker 2: to you.
- 18:10Speaker 3: It's the fact that there's wild chicken running down the
- 18:14Speaker 3: road and they don't own No one owns it.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Got it.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Someone's going to kill it, Someone's going to roast that
- 18:20Speaker 3: thing up for dinner. But there's going to be more,
- 18:22Speaker 3: you know, we continue to be more. Yeah, in this
- 18:25Speaker 3: island lifestyle, it's just sort of it's always there. There's
- 18:28Speaker 3: there seems to be community where I remember my my
- 18:32Speaker 3: my captain was looking for cigarettes and he couldn't find it.
- 18:35Speaker 3: He's like, how are gonna get a cigarette? The locals
- 18:38Speaker 3: grew tobacco and they come up and they're like here.
- 18:41Speaker 3: They hand him this like five foot tobacco leaf, all
- 18:44Speaker 3: perfectly dried out, like just take this and make whatever
- 18:47Speaker 3: you want. And it's like in those moments, you're like, oh, okay,
- 18:50Speaker 3: you just grow it, just make whatever you want and
- 18:53Speaker 3: it'll do right. And so I had also met a
- 18:57Speaker 3: Fijian guy that I say Fijian, I'm being a generic.
- 19:01Speaker 3: There's many micro islands out there. The actual area was
- 19:05Speaker 3: called the Kingsman Reef Okay and it's a small micro
- 19:08Speaker 3: cluster of islands between Hawaii and and so on this
- 19:12Speaker 3: transit we were in Hawaii, We're going to Fiji. Right
- 19:15Speaker 3: about halfway there's this just cluster of perfect surf spots.
- 19:19Speaker 3: And we ended up running into bad weather for a
- 19:23Speaker 3: couple of weeks for sure at that spot.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And so I got to know some of these locals
- 19:27Speaker 1: really well.
- 19:27Speaker 3: And you know, they come up in this hand carved
- 19:30Speaker 3: out canoe to a ten million dollar super yacht, and uh,
- 19:35Speaker 3: you know canoes filled up with coconuts and bananas, and
- 19:39Speaker 3: they're like, what can we get from you? And I
- 19:43Speaker 3: think in those moments you you kind of have like
- 19:45Speaker 3: a you know, you kind of realize, I'm out here
- 19:49Speaker 3: on this on this very privileged situation. Sure, and this
- 19:53Speaker 3: guy's out here barely surviving.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he's very thin, he's probably in his
- 19:59Speaker 1: early eighties and he's canoeing coconuts in his early eighties.
- 20:05Speaker 1: You know. Just Okay, Anyway.
- 20:08Speaker 3: It was pretty It's pretty fascinating to see how people
- 20:10Speaker 3: can actually get by and how much we've forgotten, you know,
- 20:15Speaker 3: and I really appreciate that. If there's anything that I
- 20:17Speaker 3: learned from it all, it's to to not forget about that,
- 20:20Speaker 3: you know. So I like this lifestyle because it's simple
- 20:24Speaker 3: and you can still kind of live off the land,
- 20:26Speaker 3: and as a chef, I can go place to place,
- 20:28Speaker 3: grab forage, fish on, feel like I'm as Fijian, feel
- 20:33Speaker 3: like I'm as Fijian as possible.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Well, and it'll hopefully get you to eighty where you
- 20:38Speaker 2: can still where you can still row a new out.
- 20:41Speaker 3: So those guys I remember asking that guy was like
- 20:45Speaker 3: he I mean, he's eighty and he's got a six
- 20:47Speaker 3: pack to just ripped, you know, And I'm looking at
- 20:50Speaker 3: this guy and like he ended up inviting us out
- 20:52Speaker 3: for kava and dinner and super nice guy.
- 20:55Speaker 1: But I asked him, I said, what do you always?
- 20:57Speaker 1: What do you eat? He says, eat fish and coconuts.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Eat fish and coconut for eighty years. Look at the guy.
- 21:02Speaker 1: I mean, it's case in point there you go.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I get away from the packaged food and they
- 21:07Speaker 2: added sugars.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. You got to.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Remind yourself and we don't travel enough. You're just doing
- 21:12Speaker 3: yourself a disservice because you're not remembering how well most
- 21:17Speaker 3: people are with virtually nothing.
- 21:20Speaker 2: When you look back on all of this diverse experience
- 21:23Speaker 2: that you've had, what do you think has changed most
- 21:26Speaker 2: about you as a result of that? Like, how do
- 21:29Speaker 2: you feel inside about yourself after all that?
- 21:32Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting because you know, vacations are ruined forever
- 21:36Speaker 3: because of working on the yachts. Right, let's just say that.
- 21:39Speaker 3: I mean, where's my ten million dollar yacht in my
- 21:41Speaker 3: private chef and my jet ski?
- 21:43Speaker 1: You know, how am I going to do it? So?
- 21:44Speaker 3: But at that same token, there's this having learned how
- 21:49Speaker 3: happy the Fijians were in this example, sure, and how
- 21:52Speaker 3: they had literally nothing in this example.
- 21:55Speaker 1: And so you quickly learned that this billionaire who's.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Not the happiest guy on the planet, compared to the
- 22:04Speaker 3: Dirk poor person, who is the happiest person on the planet.
- 22:08Speaker 1: It's just right there in front of you. There's there's
- 22:10Speaker 1: no science involved here, it's just cultural and it's right
- 22:14Speaker 1: there in front of us, and we choose not to
- 22:17Speaker 1: recognize it anymore, I think, but I'm thankful that I
- 22:20Speaker 1: was able to see that right in front of me.
- 22:22Speaker 1: I mean, ten million dollar, eighty year old man.
- 22:25Speaker 3: With coconuts, smile on his face, six back, careless rock
- 22:30Speaker 3: anything in life.
- 22:31Speaker 2: And that's pretty universal around the world. You can be
- 22:34Speaker 2: in the in the most remote part of Africa. You
- 22:37Speaker 2: come into a little village and the kids are smiling
- 22:40Speaker 2: and they're playing, and they're there the adults too.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, so the adults.
- 22:45Speaker 3: Yeah, And of course that's a bit of a general
- 22:47Speaker 3: those there are places where things are tough, real tough,
- 22:50Speaker 3: and Chicago is one of them, Detroit is one of them. Yeah,
- 22:54Speaker 3: it just blows my mind. We're getting a little political now.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Sorry, well, but that's Paul.
- 22:59Speaker 2: It are part of travel because we learn in our
- 23:03Speaker 2: journeys that that people are generally good and governments are
- 23:08Speaker 2: generally screwed up. And there's some version of that that
- 23:11Speaker 2: exists pretty much anywhere in the world. You know, maybe
- 23:14Speaker 2: places like Norway being an exception, but there's very few
- 23:17Speaker 2: places in the world where you don't hear people actively
- 23:21Speaker 2: complain about the governments that they're living living under. So
- 23:25Speaker 2: it is part of travel, and it's important to know
- 23:27Speaker 2: that going back to it.
- 23:28Speaker 3: All leads back to travel because has you had that understanding,
- 23:31Speaker 3: you would have you would have never even considered the
- 23:33Speaker 3: other option.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Yep, just right out the bat. Oh I get that.
- 23:36Speaker 1: I get why they're doing that, but we don't because
- 23:38Speaker 1: we don't travel.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've got to get away from our day
- 23:42Speaker 2: to day and our own locked in beliefs. See how
- 23:46Speaker 2: someone else lives different, maybe with another set of beliefs,
- 23:49Speaker 2: and you realize, like a coconuts chicken.
- 23:52Speaker 1: Yeah, bring it back to the simple stuff. Yeah for sure.
- 23:55Speaker 1: See those happy people and you want to be them?
- 23:58Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
- 23:59Speaker 2: And how is that help form your day to day?
- 24:02Speaker 2: Do you bring some of those practices with you now
- 24:04Speaker 2: every day?
- 24:05Speaker 1: Absolutely so?
- 24:06Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, if I
- 24:08Speaker 3: learned anything is that I have no desire to have
- 24:10Speaker 3: the ten million dollar yacht, you know. I want to
- 24:12Speaker 3: be the guy with the coconuts, you know, And so
- 24:15Speaker 3: I'm trying to live my life that way. Just what
- 24:18Speaker 3: do I need, what's going to get me through? What
- 24:21Speaker 3: is what is not of excess, you know. And I
- 24:24Speaker 3: also teach this in all my classes, is just bring
- 24:27Speaker 3: what you need. Don't think you need all this extra stuff.
- 24:30Speaker 3: And I recently went out of this off topic, but
- 24:33Speaker 3: I recently went out to Mexico's and sisters down there
- 24:37Speaker 3: and camped out for a couple of weeks, and I
- 24:40Speaker 3: had a family come up to families actually to my campsite.
- 24:44Speaker 3: They pulled out every imaginable cooking device on the planet.
- 24:50Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. And while I was really impressed, and
- 24:54Speaker 3: I'm thinking as a chef, I'm like, God, I would
- 24:56Speaker 3: love to have all this stuff, at the same time,
- 24:58Speaker 3: I'm thinking, you schlept all this stuff out to here,
- 25:01Speaker 3: Like what are you doing? So you know, it's really
- 25:04Speaker 3: interesting to me. And that's why I developed my knife kit.
- 25:06Speaker 3: For one thing is it's just you know, up until now,
- 25:09Speaker 3: We've been taking full sized knives, wrapping them up in cardboard,
- 25:11Speaker 3: banging them around and tupperware bins and yeah, it's just
- 25:15Speaker 3: you need to only have the things that you need.
- 25:18Speaker 1: And in this case, I put together a kid.
- 25:20Speaker 3: It's just the chef's knife, the filet knife, the cutting board,
- 25:23Speaker 3: the peeler, just the few things that I need as
- 25:26Speaker 3: a professional chef to do my job. Yeah, put them
- 25:30Speaker 3: in a tiny little kid. Do the same with everything
- 25:32Speaker 3: you own. And that goes back to talking about how
- 25:34Speaker 3: we own everything to go off roading, but not to
- 25:38Speaker 3: feed ourselves. You know, these little simple things that are
- 25:42Speaker 3: going to help. And even the knowledge of how to pack,
- 25:45Speaker 3: how to stow, the things that you do before you
- 25:47Speaker 3: leave the dock. Yeah, sure, before you leave the house
- 25:50Speaker 3: or pull out of the garage. What are you going
- 25:52Speaker 3: to do to make it right?
- 25:54Speaker 2: And then understanding what food doesn't require refrigeration, like eggs
- 25:57Speaker 2: can go for weeks without being in the fridge.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Mind blowing. How many people have mayonnaise in.
- 26:02Speaker 3: The fridge and ketchup and cider vinegar, and yeah, just
- 26:07Speaker 3: things that don't belong in the fridge. And here we
- 26:09Speaker 3: are with a five square foot cubic dometic fridge whatever
- 26:14Speaker 3: it is, and we're we're filling it up with things
- 26:17Speaker 3: that don't need to be refrigerated.
- 26:18Speaker 1: That's right, mind blowing to me.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Most drinks, you know, you just keep them stored in
- 26:22Speaker 2: the vehicle, and then you know the drinks you're going
- 26:25Speaker 2: to use for the next day or two, and that's
- 26:26Speaker 2: what you put in there, and then they'll get cold
- 26:29Speaker 2: and you'll pull them out and they'll be great, and
- 26:30Speaker 2: you don't.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Have to have them all in there on that same ticket,
- 26:33Speaker 1: you know, going I always translate back to the boats,
- 26:35Speaker 1: because again it's just they're parallel. Sure, cooking on a boat,
- 26:39Speaker 1: cooking on a rig.
- 26:40Speaker 3: The food I buy for a two week excursion, let's
- 26:43Speaker 3: say the first week is really nice.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Yeah, what happens that second.
- 26:47Speaker 2: Week we ate a lot of freeze dried sausages and
- 26:50Speaker 2: stuff on that boat. You start getting really desk Yeah, totally,
- 26:53Speaker 2: and you get no more fresh food after.
- 26:54Speaker 1: A couple of weeks.
- 26:55Speaker 3: Had you had a little more forethought with say, bringing
- 26:57Speaker 3: a butternut squash, yeah, sure, it'll last for two months
- 27:00Speaker 3: in the desert under the sun with no shade. That's
- 27:03Speaker 3: a good you know of advice, and go bad. There's
- 27:05Speaker 3: so many ingredients like that that just don't go bad. Sure, potatoes,
- 27:09Speaker 3: you know it'll last for weeks, so you know, don't
- 27:12Speaker 3: feel like you can you're limited to these.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Packaged ingredients, you know. Now that's smart. Just bring what
- 27:18Speaker 1: you want, you know, be smart about it, but also
- 27:21Speaker 1: break down the produce prior to leaving the house. Yeah,
- 27:24Speaker 1: it'll save you so much space, assuming you're not going
- 27:27Speaker 1: to be out for more than a few days, which again,
- 27:30Speaker 1: most people don't go out for more than a week
- 27:32Speaker 1: in warrior style, that's true.
- 27:34Speaker 3: Yeah, just streaking from experience, you know. I see them
- 27:37Speaker 3: out there on the weekends. Yeah, I'm the one out
- 27:39Speaker 3: there all week.
- 27:42Speaker 2: You're looking forward to a shower. Yeah, no, it's to Monday,
- 27:46Speaker 2: you know. And there was one thing that we had
- 27:49Speaker 2: on the boat. We we would make fresh bread, and
- 27:52Speaker 2: like whenever that came out of the oven man with
- 27:55Speaker 2: some butter, it was like it just changed your whole day.
- 27:57Speaker 1: That and coffee. Like if you I it was pretty
- 27:59Speaker 1: amazing having fresh bread.
- 28:02Speaker 3: I love to teach people to cook because it blows
- 28:04Speaker 3: my mind how few people know how to make fresh bread.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Sure, how many ingredients are there's not much three Yeah, there's.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Three ingredients, none of which need to be refrigerated. Yeah,
- 28:16Speaker 3: we can pack those ingredients in our trucks and make
- 28:19Speaker 3: ourselves fresh bread.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Yeah, and never even turn on the refrigerator. Yeah. You know,
- 28:25Speaker 1: how do you make fresh bread when you're out overlanding?
- 28:27Speaker 1: That's a great question. So I like ziploc bags.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Okay, So again back to the I haven't left the
- 28:34Speaker 3: house yet. Let's go ahead and get a bag of
- 28:37Speaker 3: yeast and flour and water doing its thing.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Okay.
- 28:41Speaker 3: Right, you're basically making a sour dough starter okay, Right,
- 28:44Speaker 3: and we're gonna go ahead and bring that bag of bubbly, yeasty,
- 28:48Speaker 3: messy goodness out to the campsite, right, and to that
- 28:52Speaker 3: we're going to add more flour and start working it in. Okay,
- 28:55Speaker 3: get a little more water, start working it in. That's
- 28:58Speaker 3: going to turn into bread once you've it proof.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Okay.
- 29:01Speaker 3: So with that Dutch oven that you brought, let's take
- 29:04Speaker 3: that piece of.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Dough, coat it in flour, put it in the Dutch oven. Right.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Let that rest at room temperature for a couple hours,
- 29:11Speaker 3: and it's just kind of huge, nice, big air bubbles.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Okay. Now you're gonna take your coals. You're gonna put
- 29:17Speaker 1: them on the lid.
- 29:18Speaker 3: You're gonna set that down on top of a relatively
- 29:20Speaker 3: cool fire and bake that for forty minutes until you
- 29:24Speaker 3: have golden brown, fresh bread.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Oh man, that sound good, guys. And the beautiful part
- 29:31Speaker 1: of it is, yeah, you never turned on your fridge. Yeah,
- 29:34Speaker 1: and you used very little water and it's going to
- 29:36Speaker 1: feed you all day.
- 29:37Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you come out hot and anything better
- 29:41Speaker 2: than fresh bread, that's amazing.
- 29:43Speaker 3: And when you can actually get really creative with your
- 29:45Speaker 3: breads and you're basically making for kacas at that point,
- 29:47Speaker 3: sure you have a sheet pan, you're making for kachas.
- 29:51Speaker 3: Let's say now I have jars of sun dried tomatoes
- 29:54Speaker 3: or jars of capers, or let's say we have fresh
- 29:57Speaker 3: herbs or cheese is feda armisan. All that stuff can
- 30:02Speaker 3: build what's essentially a walking pizza. Yeah, you know, and
- 30:05Speaker 3: it's going to fill you up. There's vegetables on a
- 30:07Speaker 3: cherry tomatoes. Use that to get rid of the stuff
- 30:10Speaker 3: that's going to go bad.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:11Speaker 3: And that's one thing that I wanted to mention was
- 30:14Speaker 3: that second week of being out there. That first week
- 30:18Speaker 3: of food was amazing, but that second week, you're running
- 30:20Speaker 3: on the dregs, right, and how are you going to
- 30:22Speaker 3: make that work?
- 30:23Speaker 1: Well?
- 30:23Speaker 3: Right, That's what makes you a chef. That's what makes
- 30:25Speaker 3: every recipe that was ever born was the dregs. Yeah, sure,
- 30:30Speaker 3: chef looking in the fridge, going how am I going
- 30:33Speaker 3: to pull this off?
- 30:34Speaker 1: Yeah? And suddenly a recipe is born. Yeah, Oh, that's brilliant.
- 30:39Speaker 2: One of the questions that we love to ask is
- 30:41Speaker 2: someone that's getting new to travel, maybe new to sailing,
- 30:45Speaker 2: maybe new to overlanding. What's kind of the few pieces
- 30:49Speaker 2: of advice that you would give them. They're they're looking
- 30:51Speaker 2: for someone who's been around the world, what would you
- 30:54Speaker 2: tell them?
- 30:55Speaker 1: Pack lightly? Because you don't know what you want yet.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the more you go and you you're
- 31:02Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna find after trip after trip.
- 31:06Speaker 1: I didn't like that there, and I don't like the
- 31:07Speaker 1: way this is located.
- 31:08Speaker 3: And I didn't even need that at all. Why I
- 31:11Speaker 3: might lugging this thing around. If there's one thing that
- 31:14Speaker 3: I did for too long was pack lightly. I mean
- 31:18Speaker 3: really like, I got rid of everything. I owned nothing
- 31:22Speaker 3: for most of my life. It's not until last two
- 31:24Speaker 3: years I've started accumulating anything, sure at all.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Sure, I got my first bed at thirty five years old.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Nice job man, Thank you. I'm really proud of that.
- 31:34Speaker 3: And so you know, I think if if you had
- 31:36Speaker 3: any understanding of my background, you'd understand that I didn't
- 31:40Speaker 3: need much as a Phijien, if I could be as
- 31:43Speaker 3: Fijian as possible. I didn't share much and I still don't,
- 31:46Speaker 3: and I would recommend anyone that's getting into this don't
- 31:49Speaker 3: think you need to come out to Overland Expo and
- 31:51Speaker 3: buy everything under the sun.
- 31:54Speaker 1: You need to go overlanding. You need to go break
- 31:56Speaker 1: some stuff, figure out what your problems are and figure
- 31:59Speaker 1: out what it is that you want while you're out there.
- 32:02Speaker 1: If you don't know yet, you just don't. If you're
- 32:04Speaker 1: new with this.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, oh that's that's wonderful advice. How do people
- 32:09Speaker 2: find out more about you? How do they find out
- 32:11Speaker 2: more about the knives that you talked about? Give the
- 32:14Speaker 2: audience some insights into how to connect with you. Absolutely so, it's.
- 32:18Speaker 3: Chef Adam Glick on virtually every social media channel. I've
- 32:22Speaker 3: got a nice website www dot Chefadamglick dot com. Basically,
- 32:27Speaker 3: if you just Google Adventure Chef or Google Adam Glick.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Okay, you could spend the rest of the day scrolling
- 32:34Speaker 1: scrolling through cool stuff, man, Well, not something in some
- 32:37Speaker 1: cases it's weird. That's part. That's part of life. It
- 32:42Speaker 1: should be. It should be all colors of it.
- 32:44Speaker 3: So, so we've got the Adventure Chef collection at mesermeister
- 32:47Speaker 3: dot com as well.
- 32:48Speaker 1: That's nice six piece folding kit. Okay, as well.
- 32:51Speaker 2: So the knives fold into themselves, correct, Yeah, that's Version Club.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Uh, we've got a kit where everything's essentially a pocket knife.
- 32:58Speaker 1: I'm an eagle scout, yeah, traveler or chef. It needed
- 33:01Speaker 1: to happen.
- 33:02Speaker 3: There's just not a good folding knife, kit, cutting board, peeler,
- 33:06Speaker 3: chef's knife, the lay knife, nice, jester. I mean, everything
- 33:09Speaker 3: that you could want to cook is in this kit.
- 33:11Speaker 1: Cool. In addition to that, we also offer the.
- 33:13Speaker 3: Overland Chef's Knife, which is a fixed blade, fold tang
- 33:16Speaker 3: knife and super premium knife.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Nice, but it does not fold.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I appreciate your time man, thanks for spending
- 33:23Speaker 2: time with us today, and we appreciate you all listening,
- 33:26Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you next time.