Bike Camp Cook

It must be said, we love good food. Plus we’re French…

Going Slowly

Before leaving for our year on the road I followed Tara and Tyler, from the blog goingslowly.com. They are about our age, are American, he is a computer scientist and is a good photographer and she loves cooking – suffice to say that I was immediately hooked, both for the original ideas in the development of the website, and for my big appetite for good cuisine.

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The brilliant idea

Pendant leur voyage ils ont eu la magnifique idée de créer un bouquin de cuisine adapté aux cyclos : pas besoin de four ni de réfrigérateur, votre cuisine et nourriture rentrent dans une sacoche ou deux 🙂 A l’époque ils ont démarré un projet de crowdfunding que j’ai supporté modestement : j’ai simplement acheté par avance le livre, et en guise de remerciement elle a inscrit le nom de tous les supporters (backers) dans le livre ; sympa ! Regardez les photos : vu le peu de moyen dont elle dispose, vous comprendrez vite qu’il y a de la magie dans ses recettes !

Le contenu

The first part of the book describes the equipment she uses as well as the food she transports. It's full of very practical little tips like how to transport your spices: around ten small zippable bags contained in a larger one to take up as little space as possible and stay dry! She also gives recipes for the “second breakfast”, the second breakfast in the middle of the morning which takes on its full meaning when you are a cyclist covering many kilometers per day…

The second part is devoted to recipes which are illustrated with magnificent photos: from pancakes to calzones including the recipe for what has become our magical breakfast, these recipes are now our little morale boost and a little thing that makes us we also remember the place where we cooked. Most of his recipes are vegetarian for a simple reason: it is always not easy to find meat a few hours before setting down to camp. Without being extravagant or having an exceptional recipe, Tara wants to give us the keys to being creative and making do with what we have available. His advice is clever and matured by long kilometers of experience acquired during their world tour by bike. I could only recommend that you enrich your way of traveling by enjoying cooking!

Some photos of our best meals

To finish convincing you

I attach the interview she gave to Bycicle Touring Pro in this cycle tourist's (very good!) podcast. You can also follow him and listen to his podcasts, he has good topics and a lot of humor.

Obviously, if you want to buy the book, or download it for your e-reader in PDF, it's on bikecampcook.com !