Dirty Gourmet: Food for Your Outdoor Adventures
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"An excellent cookbook, with a huge range of flavors. You'll find recipes like shiitake rice balls, Dutch oven sticky buns, lentil farro salad, hot chocolate oatmeal, buffalo cauliflower wraps and pecan praline fondue. Perusing this book is sure to give you ideas for your next trip--and make you hungry." --Washington Trails Magazine
"Dirty Gourmet" is really a lifestyle, one that celebrates delicious food, warm company, and outdoor fun. It emerged as a website and blog when friends Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan joined forces to share their love of wilderness, outdoor education experiences, and knowledge of backcountry cooking through classes, workshops, catering events, and easy yet exciting recipes.
Now, their new book, Dirty Gourmet: Food for Your Outdoor Adventures, extends their mission to get more people to eat well outdoors and have fun doing it! It emphasizes healthy eating with fresh ingredients, efficient techniques, and global flavors. Breakfast, trail meals, sweet and savory snacks, dinners, appetizers, side dishes, desserts, even refreshing camp drinks--it's all here! Camp cooks can choose recipes based on the type of activity they are pursuing--from picnics, day hikes, and car camping to backcountry adventures by foot, bike, or paddle--as well as find recipes perfect for large groups.
Recipes are organized by activity:
To simplify packing and planning, each section offers a base kit checklist of needed supplies along with tips on getting organized, preparing ingredients, and cooking with different methods. Complemented by full-color photos, each recipe features insights from the authors, any additional tools needed, quick-reference icons, step-by-step instructions for what to prepare at home and in camp, plus creative variations.
Publisher: Skipstone Press
Published: 04/06/2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 8.40h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781680511291
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/26/2018
About the Author
Nielson, Emily: - "Emily Nielson's first real experience in the outdoor industry was an Outward Bound trip in North Carolina when she was 15. Though she had often been camping with her family, this trip revealed to her that she could make a living in the outdoors--and that those who do so have a significant impact on the people they bring outside with them. Through the outdoors, Emily gained a sense of self-confidence and self-reliance that she feels she could not have acquired any other way. After graduating from Florida State University, where she studied Conservation Biology and Philosophy, Emily moved to California to teach at an outdoor science school, and she has remained in the outdoor industry ever since. She is currently a Sales Manager for REI in the Southern California region. She loves to rock climb, backpack, trail run, ski, and mountain bike regularly, and she is always looking for tricks to make cooking for these activities quick and easy, without having to resort to pre-packaged dreck! - Hometown: Upland, CA - Quote: "The wilderness is my comfort zone, and I want to share that feeling with everyone.""Trudeau, Aimee: - "Aimee Trudeau started cooking when she was a young teenager, reading her mom's Bon Appetit magazines after school and then cooking elaborate meals for dinner while her folks were still at work. Her family went camping nearly every weekend when she was growing up, and some of her earliest outdoor memories also involve food--watching coffee percolate on a camp stove, preparing simple but delicious camp meals. Her obsession with food continued into college where she studied Food Science, and once she started camping as an adult, she began to experiment with more interesting food options. Four months of bike touring took Aimee's cooking to the next level, and made her realize how different her camp food was compared to other campers she met. Today, she loves experimenting with interesting forms of cooking such as dehydrating, baking, and fermenting. - Hometown: Valencia, CA - Quote: "I follow a plant-based diet, which brings it's own challenges, especially when trying to please my finicky four-year-old twins.""Kwan, Mai-Yan: - "Mai-Yan Katherine Kwan grew up in Quebec City, Canada, the product of Chinese and French Canadian parents. Both cultures are very food-centric, which helped develop her palate early on (for her 8th birthday party she requested foie gras and ice cream cake). Her first experiences outdoors were at her grandparents' house in the Quebec countryside; the nearby forest and river became her personal sanctuary fostering a great sense of play and adventure. When Mai-Yan moved to California to attend art school, the freshness and year-round availability of produce expanded her cooking arena, and her thinking about food turned more serious. She became obsessed with documenting family recipes, and even designed a cookbook of traditional Chinese recipes after weeks of shadowing her grandma and dad while they cooked. At the same time, she rediscovered camping and cycling, and slowly became a rock climber and hiker. A graphic designer, Mai-Yan also teaches at Art Center College of Design and travels as much as possible. Recent adventures include snorkeling in the Galapagos and sleeping in the Amazonian treetops of Brazil. - Hometown: Los Angeles, CA - Quote: "I'm very detail oriented, which is ideal for my graphic design career, and for a perfectly chopped salad.""
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- More than 120 deliciously modern recipes for day trips, car camping, and backcountry adventures
- Offers a fun and easy approach to planning and prepping camp food
- The Dirty Gourmet authors were recently featured in Sunset magazine and other national media
"Dirty Gourmet" is really a lifestyle, one that celebrates delicious food, warm company, and outdoor fun. It emerged as a website and blog when friends Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan joined forces to share their love of wilderness, outdoor education experiences, and knowledge of backcountry cooking through classes, workshops, catering events, and easy yet exciting recipes.
Now, their new book, Dirty Gourmet: Food for Your Outdoor Adventures, extends their mission to get more people to eat well outdoors and have fun doing it! It emphasizes healthy eating with fresh ingredients, efficient techniques, and global flavors. Breakfast, trail meals, sweet and savory snacks, dinners, appetizers, side dishes, desserts, even refreshing camp drinks--it's all here! Camp cooks can choose recipes based on the type of activity they are pursuing--from picnics, day hikes, and car camping to backcountry adventures by foot, bike, or paddle--as well as find recipes perfect for large groups.
Recipes are organized by activity:
- Car campers can relax around the fire with Ember Roasted Baba Ghanoush and Mason Jar Sangria before diving into One Pot Pasta Puttanesca and Grilled Green Bean Salad, with Maple Syrup Dumplings for dessert.
- Day hikers will want to take a break on the trail with Spicy Tofu Jerky and Curried Chickpea Salad or maybe a Pressed Sandwich with Sundried Tomato Pesto.
- Backpackers can start their day with Fried Grits Scramble with Greens, Leeks, and Bacon and recharge in the evening with Soba Noodles with Sweet Chili Chicken and a Hibiscus Chia Cooler.
To simplify packing and planning, each section offers a base kit checklist of needed supplies along with tips on getting organized, preparing ingredients, and cooking with different methods. Complemented by full-color photos, each recipe features insights from the authors, any additional tools needed, quick-reference icons, step-by-step instructions for what to prepare at home and in camp, plus creative variations.
Publisher: Skipstone Press
Published: 04/06/2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 8.40h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781680511291
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/26/2018
About the Author
Nielson, Emily: - "Emily Nielson's first real experience in the outdoor industry was an Outward Bound trip in North Carolina when she was 15. Though she had often been camping with her family, this trip revealed to her that she could make a living in the outdoors--and that those who do so have a significant impact on the people they bring outside with them. Through the outdoors, Emily gained a sense of self-confidence and self-reliance that she feels she could not have acquired any other way. After graduating from Florida State University, where she studied Conservation Biology and Philosophy, Emily moved to California to teach at an outdoor science school, and she has remained in the outdoor industry ever since. She is currently a Sales Manager for REI in the Southern California region. She loves to rock climb, backpack, trail run, ski, and mountain bike regularly, and she is always looking for tricks to make cooking for these activities quick and easy, without having to resort to pre-packaged dreck! - Hometown: Upland, CA - Quote: "The wilderness is my comfort zone, and I want to share that feeling with everyone.""Trudeau, Aimee: - "Aimee Trudeau started cooking when she was a young teenager, reading her mom's Bon Appetit magazines after school and then cooking elaborate meals for dinner while her folks were still at work. Her family went camping nearly every weekend when she was growing up, and some of her earliest outdoor memories also involve food--watching coffee percolate on a camp stove, preparing simple but delicious camp meals. Her obsession with food continued into college where she studied Food Science, and once she started camping as an adult, she began to experiment with more interesting food options. Four months of bike touring took Aimee's cooking to the next level, and made her realize how different her camp food was compared to other campers she met. Today, she loves experimenting with interesting forms of cooking such as dehydrating, baking, and fermenting. - Hometown: Valencia, CA - Quote: "I follow a plant-based diet, which brings it's own challenges, especially when trying to please my finicky four-year-old twins.""Kwan, Mai-Yan: - "Mai-Yan Katherine Kwan grew up in Quebec City, Canada, the product of Chinese and French Canadian parents. Both cultures are very food-centric, which helped develop her palate early on (for her 8th birthday party she requested foie gras and ice cream cake). Her first experiences outdoors were at her grandparents' house in the Quebec countryside; the nearby forest and river became her personal sanctuary fostering a great sense of play and adventure. When Mai-Yan moved to California to attend art school, the freshness and year-round availability of produce expanded her cooking arena, and her thinking about food turned more serious. She became obsessed with documenting family recipes, and even designed a cookbook of traditional Chinese recipes after weeks of shadowing her grandma and dad while they cooked. At the same time, she rediscovered camping and cycling, and slowly became a rock climber and hiker. A graphic designer, Mai-Yan also teaches at Art Center College of Design and travels as much as possible. Recent adventures include snorkeling in the Galapagos and sleeping in the Amazonian treetops of Brazil. - Hometown: Los Angeles, CA - Quote: "I'm very detail oriented, which is ideal for my graphic design career, and for a perfectly chopped salad.""
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