Wilderness Cookery [antikvár]

Chapter 1SUSTENANCE IN THE SILENT SPACESWhen your appetite is sharpened by the healthy sort of outdoor living for which mankind was made, the mealtimes can include some of the best moments of any vacationif you outfit yourself with foods that keep well, cook readily, and are easy to handle.Now is not too soon to get started on your provisioning for that next trip back of beyond, for done right it's going to take some time. You'll do best to take foods you personally like and know how to prepare. Experimenting at home and on weekend journeys is the soundest way to find out how much of each item you'll need to round out the sort of satisfying meals you're going to need to keep going under fuU power.And they should be satisfying as well as sustaining. As the Hudson's Bay Company says after nearly three centuries in the farthest and most primitive reaches of this continent, "There is usually little object in traveling tough just for the sake of being tough."Rough it, sure, if you want to prove to yourself the actually very important fact that you can rough it. One day, it's true, anyone at all may be thrown entirely upon his own resources and forced to get along the best he can with a minimum of comforts.But as far as the preference goes, roughing it is a development stage. Once we've successfully tested our ability to take it, a whole lot of doubts and inhibitions disappear. We find ourself realizing that the real challenge lies in smoothing it. We come to appreciate that making it easy on ourselves takes a lot more experience and ingenuity than bulling it through the tough way."Nothing is more important on a camping trip than then