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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Rattlesnake Sandwich

This satanic-sounding snack originated at barbecues on the big Floridian snake farms, one of which is owned by Mr. Hearst. But the fame of such diamondback snacks has gone far beyond Miami; for now they're caught and killed and cooked and canned by the thousands; their meat, selling for dollars a pound, is highly esteemed by epicures who also go for eel and tripe sandwiches. But that's nothing! How about:

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