COOKING ON THE ROAD

Making a meal on the road isn't as intuitive as it sounds. How much food should you pack? What kind? Should you cook every meal? Who's going to do all the dishes? Even though there are a lot of questions about cooking on the road, it doesn't have to be complicated.

Laura Forrest Hopfauf

When my husband and I quit our jobs and started traveling across the country in our pickup truck— complete with a white-sided truck cap with a wood-paneled interior straight out of the '70s—I hadn't spent a lot of time thinking about what we would cook or eat while we were on the road for a year. Unlike our trip, food didn't feel like something that needed to be planned; we had to eat, so we were going to. Even though food was an afterthought, it's now one of the aspects of our trip that I look back on most fondly. The food we ate on our tailgate alongside abandoned beaches, on empty forest roads, and in busy parking lots isn't just food; it's something tangible from our life on the…

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ROVA (Digital) - 1 Issue, Forty-Four: August/September 2024

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