Elaine Johnson

This helpful, stylish guide grew out of a Sunset magazine trip where we took readers camping. Plan your own adventure with recipes for campground cooking plus tips for using gear, exploring nature, and sleeping under the stars. Cocktails, crafts, and storytelling pointers included!

Our award-winning book, organized around the places and ways we cook outdoors — the backyard grill, the picnic, the campsite, and the cabin — draws on Sunset’s long tradition of cooking and living under the open sky. With 200+ inspiring recipes and 150+ color photos.

Using Sunset’s James Beard Award–winning blog The One-Block Diet as a springboard, our team created this all-in-one home gardening, do-it-yourself guide, and cookbook. Learn how to transform your backyard or garden into a locavore’s paradise.

Superb fresh ingredients, a melting pot of cultures, and a sense of discovery: They’re all hallmarks of the West’s varied and exciting cuisine, which Sunset has championed since the 1920s. The food team’s big book includes over 1,000 memorable recipes for the way we cook today.

Be a better griller! Weber’s all-in-one master class for every aspect of outdoor cooking will take you by the hand with step-by-step photos, tips, and confidence-building recipes so you get great results every time. I learned a lot contributing to this book.

As an avid charcoal griller who loves the fun and flavor of live-fire cooking, I was excited to help put recipes through their paces for this dazzling guide. You’ll find recipes for seared steaks, roasted vegetables, smoked fish, barbecued ribs, wood-fired pizzas, and lots more.