Food and Drink

Want to Get Outside All Winter? Bring Your Thermos.

AC Shilton

A Revolution Is Coming to the Seafood Aisle

Rowan Jacobsen

Your Guide to Throwing an Outdoor Thanksgiving

AC Shilton

Ease into Winter with Backcountry-Approved Comfort Food

Christina Bernstein

Top-Notch Kitchen Enhancements for the Foodie in Your Life

A good meal or beverage is hard to beat

Gabriela Aoun and Joe Jackson

Nov 10, 2020

Holiday Gift Ideas for the Amateur Chef

Help them deliver the best holiday meal possible

Gabriela Aoun and Joe Jackson

Nov 10, 2020

The Best Stuff for Gathering Outdoors This Time of Year

Elevate your happy hour

Jakob Schiller

Oct 26, 2020

I constructed a ten-by-six-foot L-shaped structure, bracketed by three posts crowned with old wood corbels—decorative supports—that I found in the junk pile.

I Missed Bars. So I Built One in My Own Backyard.

During a hot and lonely summer, I grabbed my tools and created an outdoor watering hole to entertain friends—at a safe distance, of course! This may be the best idea I’ve ever had.

Nick Heil

Oct 15, 2020

Freshly caught trout tastes way better than a bag of freeze-dried slop.

Catch and Eat Your Own Fish the Next Time You Go Backpacking

It's the lightest backpacking meal—and one of the easiest and tastiest

Ryan Wichelns

Oct 15, 2020

Backpackers anxious to avoid this scenario will find a bevy of lightweight dehydrated and freeze-dried dishes that promise both flavor and nutrition.

The Best Ready-to-Eat Backpacking Meals, According to Experts

We asked a professional chef and a nutritionist to evaluate ten meals. Here's what rose to the top.

Jenny McCoy

Oct 8, 2020

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