Hello and welcome! My name is Jake, and my three biggest passions are food, hiking, and traveling. While eating and traveling usually go well together, eating well and hiking hard sometimes don’t. I created this site to share my own tricks and recipes for eating well outside.

Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, I spent my summers camping and fishing around the Great Lakes in the northern parts Michigan. Always eager to find an empty beach, I grew to appreciate the hard hiking and stealthy camping that was often required to find one.

Hungry for adventure, I left the U.S. to teach in Korea after I finished college. I ended up staying for four years, and spent a significant amount of time backpacking around Asia. It was there that I really grew to appreciate a good meal.

“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson