A Chef in His Getaway Galley

[lsanderson]

Steve Johnson, the chef and owner of Rendezvous in Cambridge, Mass., on his houseboat anchored off Westport, Mass.
By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: August 31, 2010

ON a recent sunny Friday, Steve Johnson steered his skiff up the mouth of the Westport River, just down the coast from New Bedford. As terns wheeled overhead, fantasies of exotic summer destinations fell away. Who needs Bali when you’ve got a houseboat tied up in an estuary off Rhode Island Sound, and a mess of just-dug clams for lunch? More