Passport to Survival: Mormon survival manual

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"Monday dinner: green drink #73, emergency stew #20, noodles #27, bread sticks #38, criss-cross cookies #91."

Homegrown Evolution looks at a 60s-era Mormon survival manual called Passport to Survival.

201001111101As far as I can tell, these tomes assume we're, "in the last days," a period for which the Latter Day Saints hierarchy suggests keeping a two year supply of food for your household. Having just seen the grim Cormac McCarthy/Viggo Mortensen vehicle The Road and not wanting to have to resort to cannibalism (those folks at the Wal-Mart sure don't look appetizing!), I cracked open my Mormon survival books starting with Esther Dickey's Passport to Survival.

The astonishing thing about the 110 recipes in Dickey's book is that they make use, almost exclusively, of only four ingredients: wheat, salt, honey and powdered milk. This makes Passport to Survival one of the most unusual cookbooks ever written.

Passport to Survival: Mormon survival manual