Old-Fashioned Dutch Oven Cookbook

The art of dutch oven cooking has been dying for a long time. What my mother taught me was very little and I do remember great food from that cooking. I just wanted to bring back that comfortable feeling once again and to enjoy the basically hassle free cooking again. There is so much you can do with a dutch oven and I'm glad that they are still making them. I hope that there will be an increase in cooking the old fashioned, healthy way.

Today, cooking with a Dutch oven is all the rage and this book started it all. Every Dutch oven cook should own this book, no matter how many other Dutch oven cookbooks they own. Don Holm had the guts to write the first book in modern times (that being in the 1960s) about cooking with a Dutch oven. In fact, when Holm contacted Lodge about purchasing some ovens to perfect his recipes, he was informed that Dutch ovens were no longer in production. The rebound of this once essential and now popular way to cook in the great outdoors can be attributed to one person and one book, the Old Fashioned Dutch Oven Cookbook, by Don Holm. Sure, other authors have now jumped on the band wagon and written their take on the cast iron cooking pot, just as there are now more books than ever about vegetable gardening and fly fishing. But Holm was the first, and this book was the inspiration for many of the others. The author goes beyond what most readers would expect from a cookbook. He takes that extra step and provides a bundle of outdoor stories that outdoor lovers, and others, will enjoy. And, besides a history of the Dutch oven and the stories, Holm provides many useful recipes for beginners and experienced cooks as well. This book is a good study for all serious Dutch oven cooks and beginners as well. Once again, every Dutch oven cook should own this book, no matter how many other Dutch oven cookbooks they own.

This was the first book I ever read abour dutch ovens. It provides a good sense of its history, care,etc.as well as a wide variety of recipies. The chapter on sourdough cooking started me on a whole new adventure. Pleasant reading.