Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue: a recipe for something -- All thinking and talking of food -- The secret society of unconventional cooks -- Slaughter and scurvy -- Meat and melted snow -- How to keep a fat explorer in prime condition -- Into the deep freeze -- Prisoner-of-war syndrome -- The syrup of American comfort -- A cookie and a story -- Sleeping with vegetables -- A tale of two stations -- Epilogue: not under these conditions -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. selected recipes from Gerald Cutland's fit for a fid -- Appendix 2. hoosh timeline.

As entertaining as it is enlightening Anthony's tour of Antarctic cuisine takes us from hoosh (a porridge of meat fat & melted snow often thickened with crushed biscuit) & scurvy ridden expeditions of Shackleton & Scott through the 20th century to his own preplanned 300 meals (plus snacks) for a two person camp in the Transantarctic Mountains.