Campfire cooking doesn’t need gadgets; just heat, hunger, and maybe a stick that didn’t fall in the mud. With 17 open flame recipes, even cracked coolers and missing tools can’t mess things up.

Several times a year, we have meetings in the woods. Most of the time, we are too far from cafes or towns to eat, so I cook or have someone else cook while I am with the meeting. During the cogongrass ...