Best Gifts for Travelers, Backpackers, Outdoorsmen (2026)

If you gave the idea of ​​a wood burning stove, and a little breeze, you would have seen this coming. All you need to complete the complete fire package is Cooking on Fire, a beautiful book of recipes and techniques for open fire cooking. Cooking on Fire they have a great mix of recipes, from easy and delicious vegetables to slow-cooked meats that take hours. There is also information on different types of fire and cooking methods, as well as all the tools you need to cook different things (for example: spits, forks, metal pansand so on). That’s all you—er, sorry, your foreign friend—need to start cooking on the stove.

What I want to try is a way to fire inside the log on the cover, but I haven’t gotten there yet. So far I’ve just had the chance to make a roast pork belly, with roasted carrots and “Krabbelurer” griddle cakes for dessert. All of this was very good, however, perhaps the law of the universe applies more here than in any other cooking: Your results may vary. But in the end, this is not a culinary gift. It’s a gift to remind us all to slow down and take our time, food and everything else.