Pocket ration for travel
Conference traveler's trail mix (GORP)
TravelEvocation🍯 🧂facile5 min
A mix of dried fruits, nuts, and cereal flakes, eaten by the handful. Energy-dense, portable, sweet-and-salty — perfect for a meeting room with no meal break or a transcontinental flight.
Why this dish? Radia Perlman traveled extensively for standards committees and technical conferences (IETF, etc.). Trail mix, a compact and non-perishable blend, is the typical nomadic ration of the traveling engineer.
Between standardization meetings, you don't always have time to sit down and eat — so I kept a small bag of mix: almonds, cashews, raisins, a little puffed cereal, sometimes a few chocolate chips on good days. You dip into it with one hand while arguing a protocol point with the other. It's sweet, it's salty, it sticks to your ribs, and above all, it doesn't crumb on technical documents. The perfect trip, for me, is one where the network converges AND I still have almonds left.
Ingredients
- •Almonds — 1 part (nut, salt)
- •Cashews — 1 part (fatty nut)
- •Raisins — 1 part (natural sugar)
- •Puffed cereal — 1 part (volume, crunch)
How it was made : "GORP" (often glossed as "Good Old Raisins and Peanuts") has been the energy ration for North American hikers and travelers since the mid-20th century. Light, caloric, and non-perishable, it naturally migrated from the backpack to the laptop bag.