There was a great PBS one years ago -- Maybe NOVA? Should be available in their app, I think. Read more
John Carruthers
jcarruthers
Proprietor of a bootleg pizza shop located in an alley. Beer writer by day and author of three cookbooks. Jean jacket enthusiast.
Having learned to backpack as a cub scout in the pre-spacefood era (early 80's), we relied on [shivers/mild dry heave] “pilot biscuits” for two-plus overnighters. Read more
The secret ingredient is arctic explorers Read more
Seconded. I'm not a big Kenneth Branagh fan either :/ Read more
These recipes are missing a vital ingredient, weevils. Read more
Not Antarctica, but you should watch the first season of The Terror. Basically 90% of my days now involve making TV recommendations, so I had to. Read more
I was reading the lyrics and wondering what sort of old-timey British marching tune went with them all the way until I got to the “freshy-e freshy” line, and was like, “wait a minute....” Read more
But which documentary did you watch???? I’ve been to several leadership trainings where we all need to have the goal of ending up like Amundsen, not Shackleton. Read more
oh, you’re not useless now! you can be the cook! Read more
that slaps.. Read more
Depending on who’s calculating, that was also the daily calorie intake of British sailors during the Age of Sail Read more
Yeah. But for most of these trips you had seperate stores of pemmican it seems. You had more expensive pemmican meant to feed people. Then to save money you’d by like d grade pemmican for the dogs. It would have to be eadible, obviously. But in effort to so all this crazy balls on x amount of dollars you would feed… Read more
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Coincidentally (perhaps subconsciously due to current circumstances), I looked up how to make pemmican a few days ago:
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This is a favorite song of mine from my very favorite band—but I’ve never seen this video! What a treat! Read more
If you don’t want to make Pemmican, but you want to try it, I recommend Jack Link’s Beef Chew!