Dick Stucki, known in many areas as “Mr. Dutch Oven,” has been cooking for fun ever since he was a young boy and learned to use the Dutch oven while a boy scout. From that time on, he has been cooking in Dutch ovens and sharing his good food and ideas with anyone wanting to learn.

There are many Dutch oven cookbooks available. Some offer just the basics; others are more advanced. Every author has an idea of how cooking with a Dutch oven should be done, but few offer a full spectrum. This book offers enough variety and methods to take a person from novice to a gourmet Dutch oven cook.

Enjoy the warmth and hospitality of entertaining family and friends using these festive, yet fun and easy get-together menus for holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions throughout the year.

After 20 years of feeding river runners from all over the world, Sheila Mills knows what hungry outdoorspeople like to eat. In The Outdoor Dutch Oven Cookbook, she uses a traditional cooking tool to create more than 200 creative, delicious, and original recipes for everything from salads to desserts. This is camp cooking as you've never tasted it! Also included are sections on low-impact camp cooking; keeping food cold, fresh, and safe to eat; and rules of etiquette for the gathering and burning of firewood.

So, what's a real-life cowboy like Grady Spears doing in the kitchen of West Texas' noted Reata restaurant? Simple - he's putting his brand on some of America's favorite food, with regional Texas ingredients, traditional cowboy dishes, and his own sometimes quirky culinary inspirations. This is real cowboy cooking, but with some decidedly uptown flavors.

A Cowboy in the Kitchen dishes up real food for real people, along with tasty helpins of cowboy folklore (what is in the traditional dish called “Son of a Bitch?”) and unusual cooking hints (ever heard of “refrigerator smoking?”)

This book is big just like the portions they serve up at the authors' Reata Restaurants (Alpine and Fort Worth, Texas, and Beverly Hills), and it's just as colorful and attractive. It's full of information with sections entitled: “Scorching a Steak;” “Dutch Ovens and One-Pot Meals,” and “Chuck Box Secrets.” This is a book for the cowboy in all of us.

Just the title makes you smile and that's what this book is intended to do. Although it does contain “real” recipes, you'll enjoy the crazy humor served up by the authors along with the illustations by Sam Rawls. This book is a real treat.