The best food I’ve ever eaten was cooked over a campfire. Campgrounds generally have some kind of fire ring, but when I head into the backcountry—if open flame fires are permitted—I am a devoted fan of Firebox stoves. It’s not practical to hike around with a grill strapped to your pack, but the Firebox makes building a compact fire, and …
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As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything from medicines to gas, people are returning to cooking with firewood. “It is also difficult to find firewood and it is also becoming very expensive.” Pain into 2023 Sri Lanka used to be a middle-income country, with GDP per head comparable to the Philippines and …