Posted on 05/17/2006 3:49:37 AM PDT by fgoodwin
Boy Scouts of America Selects Campfire Cafe Cookbook
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb384364.htm
(PRWEB) May 16, 2006 -- Over The Open Fire, a unique cookbook featuring open fire cooking recipes and methods from the popular television series Campfire Cafe, has been chosen for worldwide distribution by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Boy Scouting is designed to take place outdoors. In the outdoors, the skills and activities practiced at troop meetings come alive with purpose. Outdoor cooking has long proved to be an activity that helps make outdoor excursions more fun and educational. Over The Open Fire takes traditional open-fire cooking methods enjoyed by Scouts to a higher level with gourmet recipes and menus that challenge and inspire.
Scouts are required on campouts to provide their own meals: create menus, buy ingredients, transport and store it safely, prepare recipes, serve meals and clean up afterward -- while outdoors. They must do this in good or bad weather, and without modern conveniences. Learning to cook maximizes the Boy Scout experience, and Over the Open Fire offers recipes, instruction, tips, and techniques to assist Scouts in fulfilling the requirements necessary to earn a cooking merit badge -- one of Scouting’s basic character-building programs.
Being close to nature helps Boy Scouts gain an appreciation for the beauty of the world around us. In addition to recipes with step-by-step instruction and photographs, Over The Open Fire is a cookbook filled with helpful information on a variety of outdoor issues common to Scouting. Camping etiquette, food safety, selection and storage, fishing and boating safety, and respect for nature are just a few of the topics covered.
Scouting, as known to millions of youth and adults, evolved during the early 1900s through the efforts of several men dedicated to bettering youth. Pioneers of the program conceived outdoor activities that developed skills in young boys and gave them a sense of enjoyment, fellowship, and a code of conduct for everyday living. Cooking is an activity that allows participation on some level by all those involved, and promotes a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie when enjoying meals together.
Campfire Cafe’s dedication to teaching open-fire cooking as a valuable life skill fits well with Scouting objectives. The BSA believes that Over The Open Fire will prove to be a useful handbook for Scouts and Troop Leaders seeking to elevate the outdoor cooking experience that remains an important element of Scouting today.
Over The Open Fire cookbook will be available online at Scouting.org in June 2006 for $24.95 in a special softcover edition, 264-pages with over 230 recipes and directions for both open-fire and kitchen preparation and cooking.
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1 box of power bars, 1 box of ration bars, and water... + matches
The Scouts have been a big part of our family.
prisoner6
I'm very grateful for the training.
No comment by the OP on this rather bathetic article? Why bother?
I left the BSA over the open fire/no fuel policy. There are many forests in which down wood is sacrosanct and now off-limits to open fire/BSA.
I expect my husband will buy this as soon as it's out! He likes to make "good" meals at camp, but the boys would rather have fried eggs and toast, and get back to having fun :-).
Cool gift to add to for my son. He completed his Eagle Project this week - BSA Troop 77, Israel! He just has to finish up his paperwork and get it approved.
50 miler to Camp Wanocksett, NH was probably the best experience I have had...
It's been awhile since I actually went backpacking and had to carry everything I'd need on my back. But some of those meals were incredibly delicious at the time! I'd take potatoes and veggies, lots of onions, cut them into chunks and seal them in aluminum foil coccoons with lots of butter, salt and pepper, then freeze the packages. Ditto for nice steaks, buttered and seasoned with mushrooms in a foil coccoon, frozen for the trip. Then we would artfully layer the frozen packages somewhere near our backs, producing a nicely self-cooled backpack panel that sure felt nice in the summer heat. When we would be ready for supper, the packages would be mostly thawed and ready to toss in the coals or on a rack above, leaving plenty of time to pitch tents, gather wood etc.
And when you're sitting there on a rock at twilight, bone tired and sweaty, permeated with smoke and bugs, and that steaming medley of flavor bursts out of its coccoon, oooh baby. It really doesn't get much better than that.
One of us usually had to hump a small cooler for breakfast and next day's rations, we never did get around to the freeze dried food revolution. And we all had to hump water.
You're right. FreeRepublic is filling up with fluff...
I didn't realize that every thread has to be a conspiracy theory or a Bush bash or a Mexican invasion thread...it is good sometimes to lighten up. Live our lives.
That's excellent. Maybe I'll be able to get a copy. Wish my son could have been involved in scouting.
You're right. FreeRepublic is filling up with fluff...
I look to FR for information-not just what is considered news by the MSM. I see no problem with posting this information. The beautiful thing is that if this type of information is not exciting to you there are many other people on FR who are breathlessly waiting for your opinion on other threads.
As far as I'm concerned, THANKS FOR THE POST!!
I think the Scouts could use our support, and the cook book sounds like a great way to do it.
Sorry, I never know exactly which Forum to post these things to. I'll try to do better next time.
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