Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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.