Simple Foods for the Pack – The Sierra Club Guide to Simple Foods for the Pack: The Sierra Club Guide to Delicious Natural Foods for the Trail (Sierra Club Books Publication) - Softcover

Axcell, C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871567571 ISBN 13: 9780871567574

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

From the Inside Flap

ing a wilderness trip should read Simple Foods For The Pack."

-- The New York Times

This new, updated edition of the original -and best -- natural foods backpacking cookbook features a wealth of trail-tested recipes for portable, delicious, easy-to-prepare meals, now enhanced by the expertise of a Cordon Bleu chef. The more than 180 mouth-watering recipes stress variety and flavor as well as convenience, low cost, and nutritional value.

Highlights include:
-- Exotic delicacies such as Moroccan cous-cous, hot and sour soup, and salmon in tomato orange sauce
-- An expanded dessert section featuring such taste-tempting treats as chocolate fudge pudding, walnut spice cake, and high mountain pie
-- Recipes to make both at home and in camp
-- Tips on packaging and packing foods
-- Suggestions for tools, utensils, and staple ingredients

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871567571
• ISBN 13: 9780871567574
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256