NOLS Cookery: 4th Edition (NOLS Library) [Paperback]

National Outdoor Leadership School (U. S.) (Author), Claudia Pearson (Editor), Mike Clelland (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: NOLS Library | Publication Date: July 1, 1997

50 drawings 5 x 8 More than 150 recipes and variations are presented in this revised and updated NOLS classic. Features sections on nutrition, meal planning, packaging, equipment, open-fire cooking and maintenance.

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About the Author

Claudia Pearson is rations manager for the National Outdoor Leadership School's Rocky Mountain Branch. The National Outdoor Leadership School is the leading educational organization for outdoor skills and leadership and offers courses in the world's most spectacular wilderness classrooms. Since 1965, this nonprofit school based in Lander, Wyoming, has introduced over 60,000 people to activities such as backpacking, mountaineering, sea kayaking, canoeing, skiing, caving, horse-packing, and rock climbing. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Stackpole Books; 4 edition (July 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081372869X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813728698
• ASIN: 0811728609
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Outdoor Cooking > Camping & Hiking

More About the Author

Mike Clelland! never went to art school, he studied Mad Magazine instead. Mike grew up in the flat plains of Michigan, then spent ten years (as a yuppie) in New York City. In 1987 he thought it might be fun to be a ski bum for one winter in Wyoming. Unfortunately, after living and skiing in the Rockies, he found it quite impossible to return to his previous life in The Big City. Mike is presently living in a shed in Idaho where he divides his time between illustrations at the desk and working as an instructor in the mountains.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOLS Cookery, April 15, 2000

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Brent Payne (Oklahoma City, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NOLS Cookery: 4th Edition (NOLS Library) (Paperback)

I was introduced to an earlier edition of this book on my NOLSInstructors Course. The food we learned to prepare on the course wasTHE BEST I've ever eaten. NOLS has elevated food selection, storage and preparation to a science. This new edition is MUCH better than the old, with more great information about ration planning, equipment selection, cooking information and some NEW, TASTY recipes. Due to the use of bulk rations, the NOLS style of cooking may not be appropriate for occasional hikers going only for a weekend, but is a superb system for meal planning for longer trips. Anyone can become a GREAT backcountry chef with this guide! END

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Drop those Raman noodles!, July 23, 2001

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Mark Mitchell (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NOLS Cookery: 4th Edition (NOLS Library) (Paperback)

If there is anything worse than slogging through a rainy day on the trail and then sitting down to a big ol' plate of beef jerky, I don't know what it is. This cook book goes step by step through the process of planning meals for your trip, the best way to pack the food, and how to prepare it on a one-burner stove. If you think that Ramans are the pinnacle of outdoor eating, check this book out. On my NOLS trip to Alaska, my cook group (none of whom, including myself, were anything like experienced cooks) was making pizza and cinnamon rolls from scratch by following these recipes. Mighty tasty.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KEY for expedition planning, May 13, 2005

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Stephen Allen (Telluride, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NOLS Cookery: 4th Edition (NOLS Library) (Paperback)

This book is all you will ever need (and you WILL need it) to plan long trips. I find that planning food rations for long trips is one of the biggest logistical challenges. Not only can the planning be difficult, it can also be difficult to figure out which foods will keep your body energized and healthy over long periods of time (i.e. not Ramen). When you are on a high altitude expedition or on a long-distance backpacking trip this is very important. This book tells you which ingredients to bring along, how to break up food during the day (i.e. 10% of your food should be breakfast food, 25% should be lunch food, etc.) and which foods work well for each category. Included in the book are two worksheets which you can photocopy and use for each trip. The worksheets are basically formulas - you plug in the number of people in your group, the number of days you will be travelling, the quantity of food you want to take each day (the book also makes good reccomendations about how many pounds of food you should eat each day) - and then the book tells you how many pounds of breakfast foods, dinner foods, etc you will need for the entire trip. Once you have all of the basic ingredients, the book also has a great recipe section which tells you how to put together all of your ingredients into tasty meals. The book is small enough that you can take it with you on your trips (maybe 6 inches by 8 inches?). If you're really nitpicky you can cut the "cookbook" section out of the book and leave the rest at home to save weight. I'm glad that I finally got around to writing a good review for this book, and someday I need to get around to writing a thank-you letter to Claudia Pearson for writing it.