Outdoors Cooking

The Sweet Spot that’s so hard to find.

There are no fewer than 10 cookbooks on my shelves dedicated to outdoor cooking and eating— from camp cooking, to barbecue, to picnics.

One of my tomes, the restaurant cookbook, This is Camino, has a chapter dedicated to an all-day cookout called: “A Whole Meal Cooked in the Fire.” It includes rigging an A-frame apparatus from which to hang a lamb leg o…