Bisky Dog: Children's Camping Cookbook for Adults

By Wil Durham

This cookbook is a culmination of fifteen years of karate camps. The recipes focus on getting children involved in preparing their own meals, while having fun and using their imagination at the same time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 10, 2009
• ISBN: 9781450002424

Wil Durham

Wil began taking his students on camping workshops after he founded the Matsu Yama Martial Arts Academy in 1990. Wil developed the karate camps as a means of instructing students in workshops away from the dojo, hiring high ranking karate masters to help add to their excitement. He soon discovered that the children were more excited about preparing their own French toast than getting instruction from karate masters. This cookbook is a culmination of fifteen years of karate camps. The recipes focus on getting children involved in preparing their own meals, while having fun and using their imagination at the same time. With the camps Wil was able to combine all the things he loved; camping, cooking, children and karate. The camps soon became a huge success. The camps became as much about cooking as they did about karate. Over the next fifteen years Will took more than a thousand students camping recording the recipes as he went. He hopes that you enjoy these recipes as much as he does. Have fun and get back to the basics of simple food preparation.

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Bisky Dog

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Children’s camping

cookbook For adults

Wil Durham

Copyright © 2009 by Wil Durham.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009912589

ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4500-0491-6

Softcover 978-1-4500-0490-9

ebook 978-1-4500-0242-4

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Dedicated

To my grandsons James and Charles

and

To the children of Matsuyama

who taught me that growing old

is mandatory, but growing up is

Optional!!!

Forward

My good friend Wil Durham asked me to write the forward to his cookbook because I was there with him when the Bisky Dog was born. So, I guess it may be fitting that I write this because the story behind the recipes here is not one of cooking. It is about loving. It is written with the profound hope that parents will spend time with their kids in the outdoors cooking things that kids find fun. In so doing, the special connections that exist within a family will be strengthened; and the world will be better because of it. This book is written from the love in Wil Durham’s heart for The students of the Matsu Yama Martial Arts Academy in Truckee, California.

Wil always has something for people in more need than he. If ever a disadvantaged child wanted to learn Karate, but couldn’t pay, he enrolled them into the class anyway. The transformation among the disadvantaged children was the most profound. As I think of the generosity and personal development that those children displayed, it brings tears to my eyes. He has a heart of gold and a clever, street-smarts mind. Wil wound up in Oregon because he wanted to train in Karate from a legendary Karate master who lived there. Wil moved to Truckee in 1990 and established the Matsu Yama Martial Arts Academy.

People who don’t know about Karate are often unaware That the positive aspect of training in Karate include developing self confidence, respect for others, humility, personal pride, determination, patience, self respect, and more. Wil was a master at instilling these positive traits and others, into his students; especially the younger students and the teenagers. The children adored him. He brought out the best in them. Over the years, the School won more trophies and medals at tournaments than could be imagined; over 2,000 gold, silver, and bronze medals.

One day Wil landed on the capital idea that we can have a Karate Camp during the summer. The camps usually involved 10 or so children a week ranging in age from 8 to 15.

This was a busy time for Wil because he still had to teach kick-boxing classes in the morning and Karate classes in the evenings. Plus Wil had to buy supplies, cook for the campers, and train them in Karate as well. He usually had some help from the older and very loyal Karate students at the camps.

Wil’s business acumen was on clear display with the Karate Camps. That brings us to the time Wil had 15 minutes in Safeway one day to buy supplies for 12 campers with $15.00 in his pocket. I can only imagine the frantic animalistic look that must have been in his eyes as he scanned the isles for ideas on what to buy that was cheap, fun, and filling. Wil’s street-smarts and artistic cooking capability were also on clear display at those times.

The children looked up to their Sensei with admiration and trained diligently and conscientiously. They loved the food. They had a lot of fun. They developed character traits that they never would have had without Karate and Wil. He loved what he did and the children loved him for it. The recipes in this book come largely from the Matsu Yama Karate camps.

The result of Wil’s lifelong journey, his determination, personal fortitude, love for Karate and his students is resting in your hands. Enjoy this cookbook. Try the recipes. They work best when you are camping somewhere and have children along, but there’s still a lot of kid in many of us; even if we have passed the one-half century point. Plus, most of these recipes work on the Bar-B-Que as well. So, if you can’t make it to the mountains, find a stick and cook up a Bisky in your back yard.

Have Fun,

Paul Curtis

Acknowledgements

A very special thank you to Paul Curtis who

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