CAMPING AND COOKING WITH THE BARE ESSENTIALS A Guide to Easier Camping and Gourmet Cooking. By Tony Kellar. First of all, the cover features a photo of a naked camper, holding a large pot over his lower abdomen. Very witty. Secondly, it's entertaining to read and instructional. Learn how to make your outdoor adventures more fun, safer, easier, and delightfully tasty. The author is a gourmet chef/river guide, determined to ammuse and educated his readers. He describes alternative, unusual cooking methods, cast-iron cooking, pit cooking, grilling, Dutch ovens, open fires. There are recipes for children (for chldren to PREPARE, not for cooked children!!) and more advanced chefs as well. You'll enjoy the fun stories, names, and instructions for tasks varying from butchering a deer to boiling water in a paper cup. Read this and you'll be inspired to go camping...today. This is one heck of a good book. 213 pages, paperback.