TRAIL FEAST | ALVORD DESERT — OREGON

Every series has to start somewhere. Ours started on a dried-up lake bed in southeastern Oregon.

Guests got a Benchmade bugout knife with GPS coordinates engraved on it, and those numbers led them out onto the Alvord Desert for three days and two nights of eating under the open sky. No walls, no ceiling, no menu board. Just cracked, flat ground in every direction, mountains on the horizon, and a kitchen we hauled in ourselves.