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Simple Foods for the Pack: Sierra Club Books
Anyone planning a wilderness trip should read Simple Foods For The Pack."-- The New York TimesThis 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
-- 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
-- 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
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212 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
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January 18, 2021
Seeds and Berries, lentils, sticks and twigs, granola, cutesy flower child inspired recipes. Updated to include "International", insanely exotic foods like... Curry. And (wait for it) Mushroom Ginger Noodles. Wow. So international.
Skip this impractical, dated 1970's-hippy idealized vision of what to bring during a backpacking trip. with its heavy, pre-prepared ingredients and long cook times. Nothing you can rehydrate in a pouch. Be prepared to burn tons of fuel. Nothing you can make in a Jetboil. Be sure not to forget to bring your (I kid you not) spatula, oven, 25 *essential* ingredients, uncooked dough, canned goods, Grateful Dead records, liquid pasta sauces and soups on your back all the way from trailhead to camps. Nothing new, you can do better without this book. Use google, you'll find more interesting recipes than anything in this "baby-boomer gone all-natural" book. Like those old heavy stainless burn your lips Sierra cups, SO IMPRACTICAL!
I can't emphasize this enough: this book is completely impractical for the modern backpacker. I wish I could return it.
Check out Andrew Skurka's recipes or just make your own. In the age of mountain house and backpackers pantry type MRE's and Starbucks Via coffee, this book and its contents can thankfully be allowed to fade into the distance.
Skip this impractical, dated 1970's-hippy idealized vision of what to bring during a backpacking trip. with its heavy, pre-prepared ingredients and long cook times. Nothing you can rehydrate in a pouch. Be prepared to burn tons of fuel. Nothing you can make in a Jetboil. Be sure not to forget to bring your (I kid you not) spatula, oven, 25 *essential* ingredients, uncooked dough, canned goods, Grateful Dead records, liquid pasta sauces and soups on your back all the way from trailhead to camps. Nothing new, you can do better without this book. Use google, you'll find more interesting recipes than anything in this "baby-boomer gone all-natural" book. Like those old heavy stainless burn your lips Sierra cups, SO IMPRACTICAL!
I can't emphasize this enough: this book is completely impractical for the modern backpacker. I wish I could return it.
Check out Andrew Skurka's recipes or just make your own. In the age of mountain house and backpackers pantry type MRE's and Starbucks Via coffee, this book and its contents can thankfully be allowed to fade into the distance.
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