NOLS cookery

by National Outdoor Leadership School

Book by Richard, Sukey

Genres: Cookbooks, Outdoors, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Mark Schleier]

No formal review on this one, as it's essentially a cookbook, but a classic... Learned a lot about backcountry cooking from this book in college!

Only feedback: I wish there was a recommended weekend trip meal list. Something to quickly reference as a starting point for planning a 2-3 day trip. That would be sweet!

[Angela]

This book seems to have too high an entry jump for my interest. NOLS cookery seems to be an entire system, and a highly evolved one at that. The few recipes I looked for looked (to me) to be needlessly complicated. I may come back to it a some point in the future.

[Walter Underwood]

Nice update to the 5th edition, adding some recipes with home preparation or simpler trail prep. The NOLS-style from scratch recipes are still there. Every recipe has nutritional info--fat, protein, carbs, and so on.

Even if you don't plan to cook NOLS style, you should get this book for the chapters on planning and cooking technique. The info on nutrition and ration planning is clear and comprehensive. The cooking techniques include the best discussion of cooking fires that I've seen.

I read this before bed and dreamed of making yeast bread on the trail.

Maybe tonight I'll dream of Donna Orr's Gado-Gado Spaghetti.

[Amber]

This book is really useful if you are currently a NOLS student (and therefore not reading this review) or if you are a backpacker that likes to use the same cooking practices, equipment, and measuring devices NOLS uses. It's not so useful otherwise. When I'm out on personal trips I carry a lot less cooking gear and spices and we carried with NOLS and I don't necessarily have the same measurment devices with me.

There's nothing wrong with NOLS methods, it's just a matter of personal preference. Look through this book before you buy it.

[Walter Underwood]

NOLS has a very specific, cook-from-scratch approach that might not work for you. But even if it doesn't, the first few chapters of this book are the best I have found on ration planning, bear protocol, and even fire building. And who knows, maybe you'll be inspired to make fry bread in the backcountry.

[Coger Ethan]

Read: "Recipies for Adventure" instead