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Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling [Paperback]

Alan S. Kesselheim
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Ragged Mountain Press; Rev. Ed edition (1 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0070344361
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070344365
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12 x 0.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 443,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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" . . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)." --Canoe & Kayak

. . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, [this book] might have the answer." --Field & Stream

Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of eating store-bought provisions. This book is all about fulfulling those food fantasies and avoiding those expensive disappointments. Trail Food tells you how to remove water from food, to make it lighter and longer-lasting, without removing its taste. Learn to plan menus and prepare meals just like the ones you left behind, using fresh foods from your garden or market, prepared and seasoned the way you like them.

Why fantasize when you can have the real thing?

Book Description

" . . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)." --Canoe & Kayak

. . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, [this book] might have the answer." --Field & Stream

Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of eating store-bought provisions. This book is all about fulfulling those food fantasies and avoiding those expensive disappointments. Trail Food tells you how to remove water from food, to make it lighter and longer-lasting, without removing its taste. Learn to plan menus and prepare meals just like the ones you left behind, using fresh foods from your garden or market, prepared and seasoned the way you like them.

Why fantasize when you can have the real thing?


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We have been windbound on this vast, cold lake for two days, so it is with exhilaration and relief that we finally paddle off. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Kesselheim's approach is to dry ingredients at home, than carry them into the field and use them to prepare meals. This results in having to also haul all the kit for preparation such as chopping board, knives, spatula etc. The other result is that most of the cooking times are far too long unless you have huge quantities of stove fuel (one of his soup recipes takes 1 hour to cook in the field for heaven's sake!)

Overall, the boook does not contain much information and there is far too much padding in the form of recollections of trips and irrelevant line drawings. 5 of the 88 pages are given over to plans for making 2 homemade dehydrators - who is going to bother doing that?

If you are a genuine backpacker, look elsewhere for inspiration.
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By CJ
Format:Kindle Edition
Perhaps to the amazement of an earlier reviewer I actually made the dehydrator based on Kesselheim's plans taken from the paperback book. Admittedly, I made it over 10 years ago and have now moved on to an electric dehydrator. But back then, having read many of Kesselheim's canoeing books, "Trail Food" was a true find. It's a great book with great ideas. The drawings give it character and the anecdotes serve to slightly make up for Kesselheim not having written as much as I would like.

Dated? Perhaps, but a little gem nonetheless.
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KESSELHEIM knows how to appeal to a useful purpose and makes a simple process an ease to work with. His book is what everyone should have on their bookshelf or carry a copy in your backback with some blank paper and pencil to plan future trail meals. You don't need glitz to be good. Christopher D. BORDEN - RCMP - Northern BC
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