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Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling

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Author : Alan Kesselheim
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780070344365
Edition : 1
ISBN : 0070344361
Label : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Manufacturer : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Number of pages : 112
Publication date : 1998-02-01
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Title : Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Studio : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

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" . . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)." --Canoe & Kayak

. . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, [this book] might have the answer." --Field & Stream

Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of eating store-bought provisions. This book is all about fulfulling those food fantasies and avoiding those expensive disappointments. Trail Food tells you how to remove water from food, to make it lighter and longer-lasting, without removing its taste. Learn to plan menus and prepare meals just like the ones you left behind, using fresh foods from your garden or market, prepared and seasoned the way you like them.

Why fantasize when you can have the real thing?

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-10-06 rating:

Decent
This is a decent book which encourages experimentation with dehydrating your food and creating recipes- something often left out of both dehydrating and backpacking food books. However, for what everything it does have or encourage, it lacks detail and I felt like there could have been so much more. As it is, it is worth the purchase in conjuction with at least one more, far substantial book.

review by: great basin traveler date: 2008-09-09 rating:

Trail Foods
Fmergency preparadness is my focus. I found recipes and food preparation to be excellent. Summer gardening with the bounty of our efforts dehydrated, prepared in delicious and easy meals for both home and traveling is a gratifying experience. Great book.

review by: adventure-survival-freedom date: 2008-07-27 rating:

Glad I bought this one!
Trail Food by Alan S. Kesselheim is a spectacular little read for anyone interested in adventuring in the outdoors, self reliance, preperation, or even just making healthy snacks at home for a fraction of the price of storebought. Encouraging, practical, and written by an obviously experienced author, Trail Food helped enhance my outdoor experience. If you're still buying those freeze dried meals or even worse living off of ramen noodles when you're out in the wilds, I really suggest you consider dehydrating your own food, and this book is a great place to start. In addition to dehydration the author seasons the book with a bunch of other tidbits. There's little blurbs about the pros and cons of cooking over fires and various stoves, advice on setting up the camp kitchen, and at the beginning of every chapter there's a little blurb of a story about canoeing, backpacking, dogsledding, or just cabin living, that helped get me in that outdoorsy frame of mind. My two dehydrators are going to be working overtime!

review by: date: 2007-09-02 rating:

Fantastic for backpacking meals...
As a boyscout leader, we like to outdo the scouts on our creative cooking to inspire their creativity. It is a great book, to show how to make creative meals without the weight of heavy food items. This has been great!! Thanks C>

review by: date: 2007-07-22 rating:

very nice
good and informative book for the price. I tried a few of the recipes and was able to improvise from there.

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