A taste of nature

Outdoor cooking differs substantially from kitchen-based cooking, the most obvious difference being lack of an easily defined kitchen area. As a result,campers and backpackers have developed a significant body of techniques and specialized equipment for preparing food in outdoors environments. Such techniques have traditionally been associated withnomadic cultures such as the Berbers of North Africa, the Arab Beduins, thePlains Indians and pioneers of North America, and have been carried down to and refined in modern times for use during recreational outdoors pursuits.

Currently, much of the work of maintaining and developing outdoor cooking traditions in Westernized countries is done by the Scoutingmovement and by wilderness educatorssuch as the National Outdoor Leadership School and Outward Bound, as well as by writers and cooks closely associated with the outdoors community.

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