“Best Ever RV Recipes”
Author: Members of the Good Sam Club
Length: 192 pages
Cost: $24.95
Easy-to-navigate cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes from members of the Good Sam Club, an international organization for RV owners and campers. Despite the amateurish look – it's spiral-bound, and the graphics are so-so – this cookbook has it all, from appetizers to desserts.
“Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors”
Author: Robin Donovan (Quirk Books)
Length: 192 pages
Cost: $15.95
This is a beautiful cookbook, professionally designed and packaged with nice graphics. The only problem: For the serious – or even the not-so-serious – camper, many of the recipes are too complicated and not practical when you're roughing it.
“Camp Cooking: 100 Years”
Author: The National Museum of Forest Service History (Gibbs Smith)
Length: 192 pages
Cost: $9.95
Geared toward the truly avid camper, this cookbook focuses on cooking outdoors with the ever-so-versatile Dutch oven. Historic photos of campers, courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, pepper the book, along with interesting trivia from national forests all over the country.
“The Leave-No-Crumbs Camping Cookbook”
Authors: Rick Greenspan and Hal Kahn (Storey Publishing)
Length: 234 pages
Cost: $14.95
Another beautifully designed cookbook, this one borders on – pardon the pun – campy, and that makes it a fun read. Recipes are easy to follow, and an interesting twist is that many of the recipe instructions are broken down by things you can do at home and things you can do at the campsite.
“The Trailside Cookbook: A Handbook for Hungry Campers and Hikers”
Authors: Don and Pam Philpott (Firefly Books)
Length: 144 pages
Cost: $15.95
For the truly serious camper, this is the perfect cookbook. It's geared toward those who intend to rough it, so recipes are easy and to the point. Roughing it should be this easy.
– MICHAEL JAMES ROCHA
