Camp Cuisine

Camp food plays a big part of the summer camp experience. While parents and staff often celebrate this camp experience as an “escape” for campers from the luxuries and anxieties of the modern world and a time for campers to experience some “simple living”, camp food has rarely been so simple or so disconnected from the modern world.

MAP CREDITS

Story and Map by Jackson Anderson

Technical Editing: Kimberley Moore and Scott Price

SOURCES

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