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Where I Part Ways with the New York Times

Where I Part Ways with the New York Times NYT Camp Cooking Stephanies Camp Cooking This article on camp cooking was published in the Times just days before we left for our Maine trip: On the Road Again, and Cooking, Too . I will admit that the smaller part of me was either chuckling or rolling my eyes the entire time I read it. This article is definitely not for those who have little tykes running around while they are preparing camp food. And thats okay. Not all articles have to be. But kids or no kids, you cannot call a recipe simple if the first step is shelling fava beans, boiling water, blanching fava beans, putting them in a cold water bath, then taking the skin off the peeled, blanched, and cooled fava beans. I am not kidding you. This is all in the first step. What really got my eyes turning somersaults in their sockets was the pictures: Is that a folding bar stool, or did they strap it to the roof using bungie cords on the way to the campground? So enough of my jealous s...