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The Well-Fed Backpacker
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The Well-Fed Backpacker

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This classic on outdoor cooking and eating offers menus for spring, summer, autumn and winter.

  • Author: June Fleming
  • Softcover, 181 pages
  • Random House; copyright 1985
  • Provides a long list of food sources, new materials on drying techniques, gourmet feasting, baking up a storm, and good eating on a bootlace
  • Also includes essential information on gearing up, food packaging, menu planning, winter camp cookery and more

Made in USA.

Item 575336

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Mar

10

2008

(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

 
5.0

My favorite among backpackers' cookbooks

By The Chunky Chicken

from Big Pine, CA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

Site Member

Pros

  • Compact
  • Easy to read
  • Practical

Cons

    Best Uses

    • Camping
    • Hiking

    Comments about The Well-Fed Backpacker:

    I have used this book for my camping and backpacking meals for many years. Its recipes are simple, very practical, nutritious, mostly very easy, often very cheap, and tasty.

    This is NOT one of those books that aims at achieving "gourmet" status on the trail -- thank goodness! "Gourmet on the trail" -- what utter nonsense for backpackers!

    Fleming's "Cheesy Baco-Spuds" is perhaps the all-time classic recipe for cheap ingredients, ease of preparation both at home and in the field, light weight, adequate nutrition, and good flavor. I've heard of people preparing it with and without cooking.

    Another feature is her section on simple "one-liners" -- meals you can put together by picking one ingredient from each of several columns. It's also a fact that most of the ingredients she lists can be found in most supermarkets. No running around town looking for arcane ingredients!

    This is simply the best and most practical backpackers' cookbook I've ever found.

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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    9

    2008

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

     
    4.0

    Practical Resource

    By Laila

    from Turkey

    About Me Casual Adventurer

    Site Member

    Pros

    • Great information
    • Practical
    • Well Organized

    Cons

      Best Uses

      • Camping
      • Hiking
      • Learning the How-To's

      Comments about The Well-Fed Backpacker:

      This book is extraordinary to get the first-time camp cook started. It explains how to create lightweight meals, organize and plan, and even has a section on winter meal preparation. Most of it focuses on learning to plan your menu according to the trip details.

      The cons (and they are small): this is NOT the book for a cook looking to increase their skills to the gourmet trail-side chef level. The author is all about ease-of-preparation and minimalist cooking. This is also NOT a recipe book. While the book does contain many sample recipes, the point is to learn how to create your own.

      This is a GREAT beginner book, but I would not recommend it to someone looking for a Betty Crocker of the Trail sort of book, or a backpacker who is trying to better their menus.

      Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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