The National Parks Cookbook really has it all - beautiful scenic photos, really interesting stories and facts about the national parks, delicious sounding recipes, and inviting meal photos! The design of this book really accentuates all of these lovely features. I love that the recipes are not full of ingredients that I've never heard of. I would recommend this book to anyone. There's something enjoyable for everyone in this beautiful cookbook!

Uniquely Americana.

A great collection of both recipes and the food and drink journey to our national parks. Most of the recipes are regionally inspired (with nods to the originals). A most tasty and uniquely American experience. I personally liked the simple timbleberry jam recipe.
Highly recommend.

Delightful cookbook with lovely pictures of the National Parks and the food associated with them. The cookbook would be worth it alone for the Acadia National Park Pop-overs recipe! For each park I have ties to, I found delightful recipes that I can see the association to the park or area of the country. It also includes fun tips and tricks connected to each recipe, such as the proper type of skillet (cast iron) to use while cooking your cornbread. The book is not only a lovely cookbook but a nice glimpse of the diversity of America, both in land and culture. I think this book would make a fun gift for any traveler or cook!

My only disappointment is that it only includes a few recipes for each park, but they seem to be quality recipes so this can be excused I think.

I received a free PDF copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. This was an enjoyable read! The pictures were gorgeous and the recipes fit perfectly with the parks. I’m definitely looking forward to trying some of these recipes. I’ve been to many national parks and always enjoy the spectacular views along with the wildlife.

This is a great compilation of recipes from around the US. The recipes are accompanied by short histories of the chosen national parks and photographs. Most of the recipes only require a few ingredients and are super do-able. I was excited to see Phantom Ranch's stew recipe and the Grand Canyon's chili recipe. This is definitely worth a read for anyone who loves our national parks and likes cooking.

What a great book!
Some years ago, we travelled through some of the national parks. Yosemite, Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon… This book brought me right back to these magical places. It is a lovely combination of the love for nature, curiosity about the parks, and the delicious foods they have to offer,
The pictures are beautiful. The author shares lots of interesting facts about the various parks and their history. The recipes are really great. They are well explained and interesting. Some of the ingredients might be hard to find, like elk, but one could try it with good alternatives available in your region. I appreciated the information about the ingredients and the fact that the quantities were in both units of measurement. I baked the Appfelkuchen and it was delicious. In fact, by the time the four adults had a slice on their plate, my grandson, who had been served first, had already finished his slice and commented that it was really good. And there are many more recipes in this book I am going to try.
This books gets top marks for me!

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is a great guide! I haven't been to all the parks but the ones I have were represented well in this book. Can't wait to try out all of these recipes!

I loved this book. It brought back memories of my visits to several of the parks. Illustrated with stunning photographs, this definitely is a table top book as well as providing interesting anecdotes and tasty meals. A winner.

Absolutely gorgeous book--amazing pictures of both the National Parks and the recipes. Chock full of regional food and drinks, this would be a great coffee table book--this is one I think I'll have to get a physical copy to have!

Thank you Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press, Harvard Common Press for the ARC!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of 'The National Parks Cookbook," for my honest opinion. Wow, this cookbook has the most breathtaking images. From the images of the parks to the ones of the awesome recipes, this is a cookbook worth buying for the outdoors person in your life. I have only been to the Smokey Mountains, but this book definitely makes me want to travel to all of them! To be honest I wasn't expecting much when it came to the recipes in the book, maybe some granola, chili, smores and other camping food, but it was much more! I was very surprised on the attention to detail for recipes based on the park resources. I loved that there were cocktails recipes like the Huckleberry Margarita and Blueberry Basil Frose! I will for sure be purchasing this for my favorite hiker.

Recently I have been fantasizing about taking trips to some of the more famous National Parks so I was really excited to see The National Parks Cookbook on Netgalley. The book, like many cookbooks, started with guides for kitchen tools, ingredients and cooking techniques. There are a couple things that set The National Parks Cookbook apart from other cookbooks and, as expected, the photographs are the main aspect! The photos are beautiful and just made my desire to visit these parks even stronger. The book also broke up the recipes a little differently. Each recipe was associated with a park and a brief description of why the recipe and park were paired was included with each recipe. I have a weird obsession with reading through cookbooks, so I have read a lot of different recipe books. The creativity, the photos and the subject made this my favorite cookbook so far!

The National Parks Cookbook is a must for any lover of our beautiful parks. The photography throughout the book is stunning and truly compliments the regional dishes that are perfectly described. It is so fun to pick a recipe and reminisce (or dream of visiting) the park that the recipe is based on.

The only wish I had was the recipe listed substitute suggestions for regionally specific items. For example, if bison or marionberries are hard to come by in my area, what can I use in place of that item? While this information can easily be found online it would be appreciated to have those suggestions listed within the book.

Calling all nature lovers. Whether you are actually in a national park or just watching Yellowstone from your living room sofa, this one will have you feeling as if you’re in the wild outdoors and dining beneath the stars. Some special shoutouts go to the Great Smoky Mountain’s Blackberry Lavender Jam and Blackberry Oat Crumble, the Grand Canyon’s Grand Canyon Mules, Zion National Park’s Navajo Tacos, Olympic’s Creekside Claim Chowder, Mt. Rainier’s Blueberry Basil Frose, Isle Royale’s Thomas Jefferson Vanilla Ice Cream, and Glacier’s Trout with Wild Rice and Figs. For the more adventurous at heart fear not, there’s some recipes for you, too, including Rocky Mountain’s Bourbon Elk Chili, Yellowstone’s Moose Drool Braised Bison Short Ribs, Joshua Tree’s Shroom Jerky, Carlsbad Caverns’s Charred Cactus and Corn Salad, Glacier Bay’s Buffalo Shepherd’s Pie, and Glacier’s Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf. This one is a whole lotta fun.

This is a beautiful cookbook. The pictures of the National Parks are beautiful. I am also very pleased to see that there are beautiful pictures of the food as well.

I love the tips for home and also the stories behind the recipes. I haven't made anything from the book yet, but I have bookmarked several to make in the future. I have looked through the whole book and am excited to try many recipes. There are some that I don't know if I will be able to find the ingredients, but I'm willing to try!

Loved the picture and loved the mouthwatering recipes, detailed and easy to follow.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

As someone who has visited a good number of National Parks and whose ultimate goal is to visit more, I LOVED this cookbook. It brought back some great memories of meals I had in the parks - like the bourbon sweet corn and smoked trout chowder, which I definitely ate while in the Grand Tetons, and the perfect popovers available in Acadia.
I plan to gift this book to some of my friends who are also devoted to enjoying the national parks and can't wait to make more of its recipes.

This is an incredibly beautiful cookbook full of not only mouth-watering recipes but also inspiring photography from many American national parks. The recipes are curated with care, each one tied to either a park's history or its natural resources. There's just the right amount of storytelling between recipes. This collection pulls from a wide array of regions and uses food to help tell the stories, putting it in a special class of cookbook that's about much more than just a list of ingredients and directions.

I absolutely love the idea of cooking recipes from different national parks. I have a goal to visit as many of them as I can, but in the meantime I can use this cookbook and daydream about the day I am able to.

As a person who loves visiting National Parks, I knew I had to check out this cookbook! I’m so glad I did. It’s full of great recipes and beautiful pictures.

I found several great recipes I can’t wait to try and learned several new things, including information about the practice of foraging. I hadn’t previously thought about foraging in the national parks before!

I think this book would make a great gift for anyone who enjoys cooking and loves nature.

The National Parks Cookbook by Linda Lu is a “must add” to your kitchen library!
I love to travel and I love visiting state parks. I don’t usually stop and eat while in the park as I usually bring my own trail mix and quick foods. So naturally, I was curious what might be found in a national parks cookbook. The intro does a god job providing some background and setting up the idea. I appreciate the focus on using everyday items found in the kitchen as well as simple ingredients. The pictures from the various parks are stunning and the pictures of the final products from the recipes are inspiring. There’s a wide variety of culinary delights (and drinks) present (each reflective of the region they represent), so this cookbook would be a good fit for anyone who enjoys trying new recipes. There are great historical tidbits all throughout, so I learned a lot about our national parks through the reading as well.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.