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NOLS Backcountry Cooking - Joanne Kuntz
NOLS
Backcountry
Cooking
NOLS
Backcountry
Cooking
Creative Menu Planning
for Short Trips
Edited by Claudia Pearson
and Joanne Kuntz
STACKPOLE
BOOKS
Copyright © 2008 National Outdoor Leadership School
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ISBN: 978-0-8117-4116-3 (ePub)
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NOLS backcountry cooking : creative menu planning for short trips / edited by Claudia Pearson and Joanne Kuntz ; Illustrations by Mike Clelland. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-3464-6
ISBN-10: 0-8117-3464-1
1. Outdoor cookery. 2. Menus. I. Pearson, Claudia, 1955– II. Kuntz, Joanne. III. National Outdoor Leadership School (U.S.)
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Contents
About NOLS
Introduction
PLAN TO SUCCEED
Menu Planning
COOK TO PERFECTION
Stoves
Kitchen Equipment
Cooking Basics
Environmental Considerations
RECIPES
Breakfast Recipes
Beverages
Dinner Recipes
Desserts and Snacks
APPENDIX
Resources
Weight-by-Cup
Other Measurements
Index
About NOLS
With the goal of training leaders to serve the growing number of people using the wilderness, Paul Petzoldt and Tap Tapley led the first NOLS expedition, an educational journey into wild land that started on June 8, 1965. Spanning over four decades, NOLS graduates now number more than 80,000 from around the world. The mission of NOLS (and Paul’s original dream) abides still in an educational organization rooted in extended wilderness expeditions. Students travel away from civilization into mountains, deserts, and oceans, into heat and cold, to learn the skills they need to run their own expeditions and to lead others.
Lessons in team building, self-confidence, problem solving, sound judgment, and overall competence (including, yes, cooking) are a part of all NOLS courses. The leadership qualities gained last long after the course ends and are readily adaptable to life this side of the trailhead.
NOLS promotes protection of its wilderness classrooms through environmental education and stewardship, reaching out to larger audiences by way of research, seminars, short specialized courses, and publications.
In a world that humans like to think they dominate, the lessons learned from direct experience with nature are, as they have always been, of the utmost importance. If anything, those lessons are even more important today. The staff at NOLS seeks to be open to those lessons as individuals, to apply them to life and to the management of the school, and to make them available to the world community.
Wilderness, education, leadership, safety, community, and excellence—these values define and direct NOLS. For more information call (800) 710-NOLS or visit us at www.nols.edu.
Introduction
You might be one of the many thousands who have digested NOLS Cookery, a detailed presentation of the National Outdoor Leadership School’s (NOLS) bulk rationing system that has fed more people over the past forty plus years than some small nations. The bulk rationing system, in case you sit unaware, provides every cook group (usually two to four participants) with a wide selection of bulk foods and spices. Each group decides what to cook at each meal with the help of NOLS Cookery and knowledgeable peers or instructors. There are no set menus, and you learn, on a NOLS course, the art of cooking in the field. The system works wonderfully well for large groups on multiweek expeditions, but smaller groups going out for shorter lengths of time—five days or less—might want to consider menu planning instead. With the menu planning system, all meals are determined in advance, and the food purchased and packed accordingly. And so you hold in your hand NOLS Backcountry Cooking: Creative