In Day 1, I stopped at a picnic table to have my first warm meal.
I had tested the stove and the cannister the previous night – better late than never -, so I already knew how to get that working.
I made something that started out as a soup: I chopped off onions, garlic, potatoes and carrots in small pieces. I put them all in the pot, added some water, and lit up the stove with a lighter. It sounds like a jet engine burning.
When the water started boiling, I added some pasta. A few minutes later, the pasta seemed cooked and had sucked all the water, so it didn’t look like a soup anymore.
I turned off the stove, and added the most important ingredient of all: HUNGER
Even though there was no salt, nor any other spice, the meal tasted awesome. After eating, I was full of energy and ready to keep on walking…
“Hunger is the best cook”. Kant, talking about the subjectivity in judgements of taste, Critique of Judgment.