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this book holds the secrets of the barbecue bible, campfire cuisine and pudding Review by Hayley Harland, review in Permaculture magazine

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Cooking while you are camping can be such a chore; you either have a tiny gas stove or char things so that they are unrecognisable on the barbecue. I once had a meal cooked by an Aussie friend who claimed he was the barbie king, and it was the worst thing I have ever attempted to eat. When I try my hand at the tongs, no barbie is ever as good as my mother’s – the official queen – and so nothing can ever match up... until this little book came along. It makes cooking while you are camping actually FUN! It holds the secrets of the barbecue bible, campfire cuisine and pudding, a phenomenon that usually only exists in packaged form when camping. It is designed and written well with delicious looking pictures and is a pleasure to read, starting with a cute ‘note on behalf of Mother Earth’. There is a page on foraging and a page on the different methods of camp cooking, showing that it is entirely possible to cook a Sunday roast with a Cob oven. As we often forget little essentials when we go camping (like pants!) there is a handy checklist of equipment at the beginning, which I will now be using every time I go on holiday.
(Posted on 29/07/2010)