In the beginning were the woods...!
The first time I had anything to do with cooking was at school in the late 50's. I was an unwilling member of the School's "Boy Scout" troop, and occasionally we had to waste a weekend "camping" - within the school grounds, and within the rule book of the Baden-Powell organization. Part of this thing was to show that you could "create" fire, with two bits of wood, and then cook something which should resemble a pancake wrapped up in whatever you could find! This was to protect it from the fire, because we weren't allowed to have pots and pans! Survival they called it! If that is surviving, I prefer not to...! It was an all boys school, and when we weren't getting our backsides thrashed by warped and twisted masters, we were burning pancakes in the woods! This first introduction to cookery was recalled later in life, when I first made the Greek dish "dolmades" a sort of rice mixture, or meat and rice, wrapped in vin...
