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Though I’m a pretty competent cook in most circumstances, I’d highly recommend traveling with a professional chef when possible. My advice holds true even — or perhaps especially — when the situation is a little rough around the edges, such as when exploring a remote corner of the Channel Islands.
That’s where I was last weekend on a partnership-building mission of sorts for the Santa Cruz Island Reserve with Jay Reti , who was named director of that 55-year-old, UCSB-sponsored research institution in May 2019. ( I wrote about him as a “Fresh Face of Environmental Action” in this year’s Earth Day issue. )
