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Description
Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition follows the everyday experiences of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, focusing on how they prepared and ate food while leading the expedition across the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territory. It describes the cooking methods, the types of supplies they carried, and the local foods they found along the way as they moved up the Missouri River toward the Pacific. The book also includes simplified recipes that readers can try, giving a hands-on sense of the challenges and creativity required to feed the party on the trail.
Quick Summary
Ever wonder what a camp dinner tasted like when the United States was still a blank map? Kids will love the gross, weird, and sometimes surprising foods the explorers had to make, like drying fish in a rainstorm and baking hardtack over an open fire. If your kid likes the goofy diary style and mishaps in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Wimpy Kid, they'll devour the quirky cooking chaos on the Lewis and Clark trail. Ideal for ages 9 to 12, or grades 4 through 7, this short read serves history like a tasty snack.