While listening to the Chief Taster moon over a batch of cookies, I told her, "I have an idea for a book. It's called 'How to Please a Woman.' It is a cookbook."
She said she thought it was the most commercially lucrative idea I've ever had.
Shortly after I finished my Big Hike, a friend suggested that I write a Thru-Hiker's Cookbook. It wouldn't be the food I ate on the trail, but the food I dreamed about on the trail. All the things I wanted to eat and cook, but couldn't.
Since then, I've had several ideas for both books, and I'm toying with the idea of actually putting something together, if only to entertain myself for a couple afternoons. Despite the Chief Taster's assertions, I'm certain that my lingering fantasies of being published will only ever be fantasies.
Still, it's a fun idea.
