A vastly expanded edition. Offers a long list of food sources, new material on drying techniques and many more winter meals to provide heat and sustenance on an icy hike. Haute hiking menus for spring, summer, fall, and winter.
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A vastly expanded edition. Offers a long list of food sources, new material on drying techniques and many more winter meals to provide heat and sustenance on an icy hike. Haute hiking menus for spring, summer, fall, and winter.
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I like my backcountry meals to come together easily at home from easily purchased ingredients, to be very lightweight, and to cook quickly in camp so they don't waste time and fuel. At the same time, I can't stand most packaged meals and find that simply adding boiling water to a packaged meal yields only UFOs: Unidentifiable (and inedible) Floating Objects. I'm not interested in wasting time, money, and weight on being "gourmet" in the backcountry. *The Well-Fed Backpacker* by June Fleming strikes the perfect balance for me. For her recipes that I like the best, the shopping is easy, the preparation at home and in camp is easy, the weight is light (especially Cheesy Bacospuds), and the taste is good to great. This is the most practical recipe book for backpackers that I know of.
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I went over the backpacking cookbooks offered on Amazon using the extremely useful viewable pages, and selected the three I thought were best. Of the three I purchased, the Well-Fed-Backpacker is notably more informative. It is in that class of books known as perennial favorites, first published in 1976 and still a very strong book today in its third edition. If you are buying one or three as I did, be sure to include this book.
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June's Recipes are Incredible,
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Having been out with June twice on winter camping trips, and having used her book for many of my own outings, I can say without reservation that when it comes to taking food to the outdoors, June knows her stuff. Her house is always filled with wonderful smells of newly dried foods and experimental recipes. Fellow backpackers don't walk out of the dinner tent at night -- they roll out. The beautiful part of June's philosphy is that she's realistic -- not all of us have the space and time to dehydrate our own food (like 75 percent of the recipes in that newer "Lip Crackin' Backpackin'" book from Rodale.) She encourages you to find the semi-prepared dried foods you need at the supermarket as a base, and then build from there as much as you're willing to experiment. My favorite part of the book is a list of "one-liners," quick recipes you can throw together in a single baggie that are no-brainers to cook. They're delicious. One note -- the latest edition was published in '86, I think. A few details in the book are dated, but 95 percent is still completely, utterly relevant.
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The secret to eating well in the wilds is thinking ahead, developing a few skills and staying flexible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cup instant dry milk, cups instant dry milk, fruit drink powders, fuel flask, quick rice, hiking foods, sunflower seed kernels, bacon bar, quick brown rice, quick oatmeal, instant cocoa mix, cup toasted wheat germ, ziplock bag, instant potato flakes, soy grits, outdoor store, dinner fare, snow camp, several flavors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The secret to eating well in the wilds is thinking ahead, developing a few skills and staying flexible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cup instant dry milk, cups instant dry milk, fruit drink powders, fuel flask, quick rice, hiking foods, sunflower seed kernels, bacon bar, quick brown rice, quick oatmeal, instant cocoa mix, cup toasted wheat germ, ziplock bag, instant potato flakes, soy grits, outdoor store, dinner fare, snow camp, several flavors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Well-Fed Backpacker, Butter Buds, Russian Tea, Mexican Mocha, Sherpa Tea, Some Basics, Coleman Peak, Hot Malt, Lunch Is Often Plural, Touch of the Wild, Traveling Grasshopper Pie New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Recipes for a Small Planet by Ellen Buchman Ewald on page 4
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- The Backpacker's Handbook, 2nd Edition by Chris Townsend on page 178, and Back Matter
- Trailside Guide: Hiking and Backpacking, New Edition by Karen Berger in Back Matter
- Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills by The Mountaineers in Back Matter
- The Mountaineering Handbook: Modern Tools and Techniques That Will Take You to the Top by Craig Connally in Back Matter
- Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods from Outdoor Experts by Yvonne Prater on page 34
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