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How to make great outdoor dishes, from a chef who lived in a camper
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This cover image released by Weldon Owen shows "Out There: A Camper Cookbook: Recipes from the Wild" by Lee Kalpakis. - photo by Weldon Owen via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Look carefully at the photo next to Lee Kalpakis' recipe for hot dogs with fried leeks and sauerkraut, and you might notice a small intruder: A honeybee has invaded the outdoor dinner shot. Other chefs might balk at keeping that photo or insist on Photoshopping out the bee, but not Kalpakis, who is all about celebrating cooking in nature, including its ups and downs. “I wanted to show this unpolished version of the lifestyle, in hopes of giving a little reality check but also to embrace the fact that things shouldn’t be so perfect,” she says.