 Hi all Thanks for the mention of our book, Moveable Feasts: what to eat and how to cook it in the great outdoors. I hope you'll enjoy some of the recipes and pick up some other useful information. We had a lot of fun writing it, we though spent more time cooking and eating last year than we did exercising - something we'll have to remedy soon! We'll be interested to hear your ideas and feedback. Amy
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 Will it be printed on waterproof/plastic paper like some Harvey maps? 
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Sadly not, though the cover is laminated and flexible so we hope it'll be pretty robust and able to withstand the odd spillage too.
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Back Packers Club Cookbook is also worth a look.
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 when is it published?
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 Here's the Moveable Feasts part of the Cicerone site. Give 'em your email and you'll be the first to know when it's published. The 'Sample Route' heading is of course a 'Sample Recipe' - enjoy!
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Thanks Paddy The book should be available to buy from Cicerone and book/outdoor shops in the next week or two.
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 Another outdoors cookbook! There's so many of them out there already!  I reckon there's a new one released at least every 8 months or so! What's so special about this particular new one then, supposedly please? 
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Welcome to the forum there too, by the way, AJ!
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Check out the link above and see for yourself Trevor!
I'm assuming the 'dribbly' photo is an outdoors fondue!
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A fair question, to which the easy answer is that it's not simply a cook book. It has almost 100 recipes, but they take up less than half the pages. The other chapters contain info and advice on all aspects of food, nutrition and cooking in the outdoors. There's some basic physiology and advice on keeping your energy levels and performance up all day, whether you're a rambler, mountain biker, kayaker or a hardcore mountain marathonner. There's everything you need to know about treating water, and a detailed guide to the myriad kit options available - stoves, fuels, pans, water carriers, cutlery and tools, you name it. There's a chapter on packing and storage, some great ideas for reusing old packaging, plus a bit on building shelters, cooking in bad weather, camp fires, using local and wild foods, cooking for kids, large groups, long trips, Duke of Edinburgh's Award type expeditions, car camping trips and ultralight options. Plus a few hints on what to do when things go wrong - opening the wine when someone forgot the corkscrew, salavaging a meal after your hand sliped with the chilli, that sort of thing! As far as we know, no other book out there covers all this and more. Amy
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Not in the UK maybe no, but I'm pretty sure that a couple of the American ones on the subject of outdoors cooking do touch upon those same subjects too though.
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it has vague ingredient measurements too trevor. i know where i am with those. none of this cup nonsense. (thinks; just what is a small handful? or a heaped spoonful?)
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Parky! You've shaved your beard! And got younger looking too! How does he do that!
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 Isn't 'heaped spoonful' tautological? If it's heaped (whatever 'it' is), the spoon surely has to be full?
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No, Kate. 'Heaped' means just overfull! As opposed to a 'level' teaspoon which in most folks minds seemingly is a full measure in fact. I think in practise this means about a good half a measure again, or roughly thereabouts.  Heaped in the dictionary definition sense too usually means to 'fill to overflow'.
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There's advice on guaging measures, including a pictorial description of what makes a small handful vs a large one, and so on. Not a cup in sight, promise (we use mugs!).
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it's my regression therapy trevor. when i could provide a small handful.......
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Trevor, in order to be 'heaped', the spoon already has to be full. At what point is a spoon 'full' - when it's level? Or when you can't put any more into it? In which case it's 'heaped' already. A teaspoonful of sugar in a cup of coffee is usually heaped! Perhaps if the instructions were more specific, eg: a 'heaped teaspoon' or a 'heaped tablespoon', it would be more helpful.
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Indeed, Parky, I'd noticed you were getting younger. Are you like Merlin in T.H.White's Once and Future King, by any chance?
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