Product Description

Featuring more than 180 trail-tested recipes for portable, delicious, and easy-to-prepare meals, this updated edition of the original - and best - natural foods backpacking cookbook adds Cordon Bleu chef's expertise to delight the palates of backpackers and day-hikers. It stresses variety and tastiness, with special attention to nourishment, nutritional balance, low cost, and health.
Mouth-watering recipes include Moroccan couscous, hot and sour soup, salmon in tomato-orange sauce, chocolate fudge pudding, and walnut spice cake. These foods are easily packed and use lightweight and long-lasting ingredients. The cookbook also provides menus; makes suggestions for foods prepared at home; and offers tips on packaging and carrying foods, selecting tools and utensils, medical information, use of fires, treating water, and where to buy ingredients.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #888468 in Books
• Published on: 1986-03-12
• Released on: 1986-03-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The more than 180 trail-tested, natural foods recipes here reflect both the Cordon Bleu experience of Cooke and the backpacking knowledge of Excell and Kinmontwho wrote the first edition of this book 10 years ago. Concerned with taste as well as nutrition, the authors offer nut and seed spreads galore and all manner of dried fruit and whole grains. The best news is that a surprising number of tasty and accessible dishes have infiltrated the ranks of the GORP and miso soup gang: hot and sour soup, Swiss fondue, noodles with toasted cashew ginger sauce, pineapple upside-down cake and walnut spice cake. Recipes indicate which steps may be prepared at home and when a food processor can be used; the authors also cover tips on packaging and carrying foods; requisite tools and utensils; menu planning for short and long trips; and where to buy certain ingredients. This book is worth its weight both on the trail and off.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Claudia Axcell is a professional writer, and Diana Cooke is a graduate of the Cordon Bleu in London who teaches cooking. Both live in Bishop, California. Former trail guide Vikki Kinmont lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Customer Reviews

Tasty for home and camp, with unique ingredients
I love the oatmeal hotcake recipe in this book. The ingredients can be difficult to find. It does offer alot of veg-friendly meals (which is important to me). The bonus here ... it's meat-free but still with good protein. It does offer menu options and lots of helpful tips ... basic first aid, even natural remedies. It's very much a helpful cookbook with detailed instructions on preparation, including a good list of camp cooking needs. I recommend this, particularly for health conscious eaters and vegetarians.

Tasty recipes, but some hard-to-find ingredients
Tired of oatmeal for breakfast, gorp for lunch, and Ramen noodles for dinner? Tired of buying those expensive dehydrated meals that turn out like soggy cardboard? This book might just save you from the trail food blahs. It is full of interesting, ususual foods such as crab a la king and polenta cakes. The recipes are simple and trail smart (a few do require weighty canned foods, though, and a few strike me as a bit too time-consuming to be very practical). This cookbook is mostly meat-free, except for a few seafood dishes. If you want dishes with meat, you might want to take a look at the cookbook put out by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). A final word of warning: some ingredients can be hard to find. In putting them together, I have made trips to Middle Eastern and Asian groceries, health food stores, and backpacking stores, not to mention many of the large supermarkets in my area. Still, I have to say that the results were worth the running around.

Simple recipes that are easily packed & prepared.
Having tried these recipes both at home and on the trail, I am very pleased. Well flavored, very generous serving sizes using natural foods that are easily packed and prepared on site. Recipes are usuable for regular one pot cooking, bakepacker cooking and other styles that tease your tastebuds and fill your tummy. Great for backpacking, sea kayaking, canoeing,and for guided trips.