The Hungry Hiker's Book of Good Cooking

by Gretchen Mchugh

Book Overview

A new edition to celebrate the 30th birthday of the classic outdoors cookbook! When it appeared in 1982, The Hungry Hiker was the first cookbook for backpackers (and canoeists and campers) that made... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394512618
• ISBN13: 9780394512617
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best Advice and Meals for the Trail!

Gretchen McHugh provides practical advice and guidelines on dehydration, equipment and meals for the backpacker who enjoys eating. The instructions and recipes are clear and easy to follow. Best of all, the results are very tasty! As a Trail Coordinator and Section Leader for the Florida Trail (alton2@mediaone.net), I highly recommend this book.

The Only Trail Cookbook you'll ever NEED!

I bought this for my Appalachian Trail hike and the recipies and techniques work every time! I'll never have a boring meal on the trail again! It tells you step buy step how to prepare and package your food before you hike to elminate cooking time and weight....it's the best of all worlds!

Invaluable. Wore out library copy-had to buy my own.

Am an Appalachian Trail section maintainer. This was the best "gear" purchase I ever made. I really did almost wear out the local library's copy.

THE VERY BEST HIKER'S COOKBOOK THAT I HAVE SEEN

This book was instrumental in the culinary delights that I experienced while on the Appalachian Trail. It goes to great length describing the cooking and drying techniques needed for great eats out on the trail and outdoors in general. Shows how to plan menus for one to ten hikers....three days to two weeks.I have recommended this book to many of my closest friends.

The best kitchen planner & backpacker's cookbook I've seen!

Teaching backpacking classes at Grand Canyon NP, as well as backpacking for pleasure, has given me a true appreciation for good food on the trail. I am amazed at the books that are supposedly geared to backpackers that talk about cooking in a dutch oven! This book is written specifically for people who actually backpack and must be very careful with the weight they carry on their backs. You don't have to be a gourmet cook to prepare these meals either. This is THE book that belongs in every hungry backpacker's library.