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National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 198 | Dehydration King Chef Glenn McAllister

By Jess Repanshek - November 27th, 2022
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Freeze-dried meals long have been the go-to food source for many backcountry travelers, but only because they didn’t know other options existed for meal time. And not everyone easily stomachs those meals.

To explore the possibilities of home-made dehydrated meals, we are joined by Chef Glenn McAllister, who decided that a 315-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail would be a great shakedown trek for experimenting with dehydrated meals. Chef Glenn runs the website BackpackingChef.com, which is the go-to source for how to dehydrate meal ingredients, and what to do with them.

And since it's the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Glenn explains how he makes dehydrated pumpkin pie!

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 How You Can Support National Parks Traveler
:37 Shenandoah - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
4:58 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
5:27 The Offering - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
5:55 Yosemite Conservancy
6:18 Friends of Acadia
6:42 The Everglades Foundation
6:55 Dehydration King Chef Glenn McAllister explains the tricks, and ease, of making your own dehydrated meals for the backcountry.
16:34 Black Woods - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
16:54 Traveler Promo
17:07 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
17:36 Potrero Group
18:03 Great Smoky Mountains Association
18:27 Glenn McAllister discusses how he makes his meals.
33:23 Blue Mist - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
33:39 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
34:00 Interior Federal Credit Union
34:22 Washington’s National Park Fund
34:57 Dehydration King Glenn McAllister wraps up this podcast with his recipe for dehydrated pumpkin pie.
46:30 Almost Home - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
46:53 Episode Closing
47:26 Orange Tree Productions
47:58 Splitbeard Productions
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