Fondue!

Many cultures are similar in many ways ... they've just lived with them for so long ~ the simplest of any anemity is a very big deal to them.

 

Native Americans have long used "pitcooking" corn, winter squash, and meats.  It's quite time consuming and a long process.  A better idea for today is to steam-cook your foods in aluminum packets.

They hunted, fished and trapped their meats ~ this had to either be eaten as quickly as possible, dried or in some tribes ~ made into pemmican.  Today there is refrigeration, or you  can process them by canning, drying or freezing your foods.

Many tribes were not only farmers, but they also went out into the wild to gather fruits, nuts and berries ... it was pretty dangerous and quite time consuming as well.  Today, you can get these foods at a fruit stand, grocery store or in some areas, you can still go out and gather wild nuts and berries.

Firewood and water was gathered at least 2 times a day ~ imagine how far these things had to be  carried.  So you lived as close as possible to the source.  Today, there are containers you can buy from livestock and home improvement stores for your water.  Fuel comes by way of wood, charcoal bricks, various types of gases, wood pellets, electricity (expensive), solar heat, and the little sterno cans as well.

Bread ovens (hornos) and pottery was used to make breads and soups.  Today we have crockpots, dutch ovens, haybox ovens, pit cooking for beans and stews.  Your BBQ can be used to bake breads as well.

 

We all just really need to 'look" at what we have around us.  Not just to learn how to do things one way and rely only on that,  but learn to do one thing several ways ~ that's always going to be your back-up plan ...

Other cultures use "cow patties," and methane gas to cook with.  Could you handle that?  A solar oven seems to be an easier choice, or learning to cook with a dutch oven and charcoal,  or even outdoors over the embers of an open fire. 

It takes time to learn, to get experience in these things.  So, while the "pandemic" still looms around the outer edges of "all heck breaking loose,"

learn to do these things now ... teach your family, especially the  children ... it's for their survival as well in case you are the one that gets sick.

 

One african tribe developed a "pot in a pot" and relies on the water evaporation to keep the foods cool, root cellars are also used. 

 

 

 

 

sterno is just a lamp in a can. i wonder if the 100 hour liquid parafin lamps

would do just as well? the parafin would last much longer, burning and not burning.