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Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 22nd, 2010
A review of an older book, currently out of print, one that sits in our collection of trail cookbooks. Do you remember “Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure”? – it was a TV show on in the early 90′s that originally partnered with Backpacker Magazine, which was hosted by John Viehman (the then Executive Editor of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 16th, 2010
Harriett Barker was in my eyes one of the pioneers of trail cooking and outdoor cookbooks. I have talked before about her second book, The Supermarket Backpacker – a book that I happen to love and has a prized spot in my large collection of outdoor cookbooks. The One-Burner Gourmet was her first outdoor cookbook, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 3rd, 2010
A week or two ago one of the guys on one of the hiking forums sent me a care package of books to read (thanks!!) and in it was a copy of The Great Divide- A Walk Through American Along The Continental Divide by Stephen Pern. The book came out in 1987 originally and was [...]
Posted in Other, Trail Cooking on Nov 5th, 2009
One thing this cookbook author has is an extensive collection of outdoor books, which of course contains many outdoor cookbooks! I am always picking up new ones to add to my office’s book shelves! I had been meaning to pick up a copy of NOLS Backcountry Cooking: Creative Menu Planning for Short Trips, by NOLS [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2009
Our book and methods were mentioned in this month’s edition of Out There Monthly, a magazine for The Inland Northwest. The article is Great Backcountry Grub by Amy Silbernagel McCaffree. ~Sarah
Posted in Book Reviews, Other, Trail Cooking, hiking on Mar 4th, 2009
If you want to see how trail food was back 30, 40, 50 or more years ago one has to pull up a copy of the vintage book Gorp, Glop and Glue Stew. The book was written and contributed to by many of the pioneers of the hiking, backpacking and mountaineering world. A number of [...]
Posted in Dehydrating, Trail Cooking, Uncategorized, hiking on Feb 6th, 2009
Mary Bell brought out another book on the art of dehydrating this past year, Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts. If you want to do even more with your dehydrator (and who doesn’t?) then check out her newest! ~Sarah
Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, Uncategorized, hiking on Dec 6th, 2008
This morning I received a copy of The Boomer’s Guide to Lightweight Backpacking: New Gear for Old People by Carol Corbridge. It is a print of Amato Books. It had shown up in my post office box and as I stood in the long line of holiday shippers I had a chance to crack it [...]
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