Outdoor Cooking

Cooking out of doors in 1940 — bean holes, spits, clambakes and burgoo, from three food writers who thought a campfire was the best joke going.

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1 recipe in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

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WE THINK THIS is the only kind of cookbook that really needs some blank pages in the back-for when you're outdoors, paper and pencils are…

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