Page 185 - The Lost Ways

- By Theresa Anne DeMario -

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we
must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and
devote our attention to eating.”

– Luciano Pavarotti

When planning for an uncertain future, the first thing you may want to do is
build up your supply of food, but that act has little meaning if you have no way to cook it.
Some serious preppers have already figured that problem out with alternative power
sources and generators to run their electric ovens. The rest of us will have to make do

with good old-fashioned cooking on an open fire.

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Homemakers of the 18 and 19 century could turn out culinary masterpieces that were
not only hardy but so good that the recipes have been copied, tweaked, and handed
down, generation after generation, until they reached the modern era of convenience
foods and microwaves. Now when you want a pie, all you have to do is pop down to the
grocery and pick one up. Something was lost when we gave up the old ways of cooking.

Let’s face it—food tastes better when it’s lovingly created and carefully tended.

If you want to not only survive disaster but to live and flourish, you’ll want to learn to
cook over an open flame like the pioneers did. With the right tools, heaps of patience,
and just a little bit of practice, you’ll be creating fire-roasted feasts like you’ve been doing
it your whole life.

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