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Posted in Book Reviews, Trail Cooking on Feb 6th, 2012
Very European is the elegant new cookbook Cook Wild: Year-Round Cooking on an Open Fire, which is being released this spring in the US. The book is an English version of her current book, which is in German. Covering the basics of making fire, types of wood, how to cook over an open fire and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jun 5th, 2011
Recently released is the new book, The Camping Cookbook: 95 Inspirational Recipes from Hearty Brunches to Campfire Suppers. While not aimed at backpackers it is an interesting read for those who love indulgent car camping/boating or plain living it up in the backyard. The book is lushly photographed, not in the typical camping cookbook, but [...]
Posted in Gear, hiking, Trail Cooking on Sep 21st, 2010
Recently added to our extensive trail cookbook library were these titles: Billy Joe Tatum’s Wild Foods Field Guide and Cookbook Trailside cooking Backpacking: A Hedonist’s Guide Complete book of outdoor cookery The book contains such hilarious late 1970 era photos as the one above. Nothing like cut off jean shorts, baseball shirts and the lady [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Other, Trail Cooking on Jun 10th, 2010
A smattering of vintage trail and outdoor cookbooks showed up today and have been added to our ever expanding Trail Library. You just don’t see covers like this anymore! Love the Beefcake pose in jeans I also updated our list we have on what we are looking for here. ~Sarah
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 Trail Cooking on Jan 7th, 2010
One of our readers, Ed, sent me a copy of NOLS Cookery as he had two. Thank you! It has been added to the Trail Library as well! ~Sarah
Posted in Trail Cooking on Nov 9th, 2009
It is fun finding obscure trail cookbooks – the hunt for them is always fun. Especially when you find one you didn’t know existed (that is always a pay off!). If one searches the heyday of the genre was the 70′s and 80′s. SO many books came out, many only in print for a couple [...]
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