Inside Outdoor Food

Periodically I remind readers that tho' I have a special focus on what is usually thought of as "outdoor food" - fish and game - all food is really outdoor food. Or used to be. You rarely see a chicken or a pig outdoors these days - a golden plump chicken barn holds fifty thousand or more indoors. I don't know how many hogs a hog barn holds, but I do know that I smell them and never see them as I drive down farm country roads.

Which is why I write about any food that I want to write about. Also, every food or recipe has a history and/or a story that goes w/ it. Food in the context of life lived, so to speak. Tina Nordstrom, for example, whom I have recently written about, in her New Scandinavian Cooking series on PBS, does all of her cooking outdoors - she has a nifty portable cooking range unit that she sets up outdoors at each unique location in Sweden. And then she goes to work. Even in winter. A Svenska Flicka indeed. Gotta love her.

Tip the cook.