Outdoor Cooking

There's nothing like a meal prepared outdoors. Unfortunately, we can't always have a shore lunch or a campfire-cooked meal but for me, my backyard grill satisfies my needs for outdoor cuisine. Many types of accessories are available to help you make the most of food from a grill. This guide overviews the basics, as well as some advanced grilling accessories.

Aluminum foil is the outdoorsman's "kitchen in a pocket." Using foil allows the camp cook to dispense with carrying and cleanin

Hordes of hunters have freezers bulging with venison. While the old standard venison standby recipes are delectable, trying something new is fun and tasty.

Spit roasting is the oldest method of cooking known to man. It's easy to imagine an early American squatting by an open campfire, turning a hunk of spitted meat over the flames. The tradition can be traced back at least to the Trojan wars.

A camper can never have enough gear. Or at least it's fun to believe so and to always keep an eye out for the next piece of camping gear to enhance the camping experience. Although, every camper has a few gear items that nearly always makes each camping trip because of its usefulness and durability. One such gear item is a cooking tripod, but more campers go without one than those who do.

The Asian carp invasion has swept over the United States like the Biblical plaque of locusts. In a mere 30 years the invasive species has spread from a few individuals in an Arkansas pond to millions of fish, which are a bane to every major waterway from Pennsylvania to Montana.

Food never tastes better than when cooked outdoors. And nothing quite highlights a fun campout like your favorite foods prepared using special outdoor cooking methods.      

Modern camp cooking can be much like cooking at home. Push a button to light the camp stove or gas grill, or start a charcoal fire, and you're ready to prepare a hot, delicious meal. For many of us, however, camp cooking means campfire cooking. We enjoy preparing foods the old-fashioned way — over the aromatic hardwood coals of an outdoor fire.    
 

Archaeologists and kindred kind believe that the use of tools became the turning point for the development of the human line of animals. I thoroughly disagree. When one considers the ancient ceremonial rituals surrounding the tribal hunting and killing of wild animals and the familial camaraderie of returning home to the awaiting clan with the harvest and the final gala atmosphere of the preparation and group consumption of these communally captured foods, I have little doubt that food, not tools, was the turning point for the human line.

I learned