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Emma Frisch

Chef & Cofounder of Firelight Camps

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Happy Father’s Day @robert_frisch! ❤️👨‍👧Twelve years ago I might have guessed you’d exceed all my hopes and dreams for a co-parent and father. Today - two years deep into parenthood - you continue to blow me away with your tenderness, creativity, strength, compassion, understanding and support. We love you so much! #daddyanddaughter #daddyandhisgirl #fathersday
HAPPY FREAKIN' FRIDAY! #FeastbyFirelight and @FirelightCamps were featured in the @nytimes again today! It feels so surreal and amazing to be receiving this kind of press alongside other companies and brands we admire so much. This article is all about where glamping is headed, with a nod to our future plans (link in profile). 🔥🍳🤞Hope you're all finding a place to run wild in the woods this weekend - it's gonna be a beautiful one! 🌳🌞⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Photo by @chwhat / Styled by @babethebluebox #GetOutside #KeepItWild #LiveAuthentic #WeAreTheWild #EnjoyYourWorld #LeaveNoTrace #GreatNorthCollective #campinglife #outdoors #mothernaturebeauty #glamping #firelightcamps #visitithaca #ithacaisgorges #ithacany
Absolutely loving @ahezel's feature on #FeastByFirelight in @taste today! "Why We Camp? The Food." (Link in profile ☝) ⠀ ⠀ Not only are we on the same wavelength when it comes to setting up and cooking in our outdoor kitchens (we feel like badass survivalists!), but she also delves into the essence of what my cookbook is all about: getting back to the roots of camp cooking. Real food. Real connection. 🍳🔥🌳⠀ ⠀ She asked me a really interesting question for the interview: Are there any traditional camp foods in your mind that can’t be improved upon? ⠀ ⠀ I'm all for shortcuts and convenient, whole foods ingredients (like Instant Brown Rice), but I feel like most "traditional camp foods" actually have "real food" roots, and that modern variations using processed foods are only a recent phenomenon. ⠀ ⠀ I'm so curious what you think? 🤔⠀ ⠀ AND, there's three recipes from the books in the article, including Pan-Seared Rainbow Trout with Whole Radishes, perfect for spring and inspired by my first fishing trip in the Italian Dolomites! So timely 🤗⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Photo by @chwhat / Styled by @babethebluebox / Food by @chrisnlanier #feastbyfirelight #cookbook2018 #tenspeedpress #penguinrandomhouse @tenspeedpress @penguinrandomhouse #cookbookauthor #firsttimeauthor #firstbook #outdoorcooking #campingfood #campfood #wildseafood #wildtrout #castironcooking #laketrout #picnicbasket
For all my mountain love, we did make it to the #mediterranean_sea one day and it was possibly the little cousins’ best day! They were captivated and calmed by the tide and an endless supply of driftwood to build forts and dig holes, including one for my belly so I could lie on my stomach! 🤰😂 There was enough space (without treacherous precipices) for them to spread out and have space and self-entertain, while we drank bubbly water and beers. Lunch was a pizza picnic from one of the restaurants on the beach and it could not have been more perfect. 🍕 I have to say though, the second pregnancy feels so much more exaggerated in every way, and with chasing a toddler by day and running our own business, I do not feel like the rested, glorious pregnant woman I was with Ayla. I feel tired and bloated 🐳. Any mammas resonate?! Still, I try to remind myself every day how precious and fleeting this period is, and how every new sensation, wave of emotion (eh hem, hormones!!!), baby kicks and cravings (or repulsions) are part of this magical creation! At one point I was lying on the beach and my bro-in-law @nolanchace says, “isn’t it crazy that you’re just making a baby over there?” YES! It still blows my mind. I feel beyond lucky to be able to experience this profoundly powerful, primal process again. 🌊❤️ #motherhooduncensored #mamaanddaughter #beachlifevibes #italianbeach #pizzapicnic #italianpizza #runwildmychild #kidsunplugged #familybeachtrip
I love the beach, but I’m happiest in the mountains, and no range makes my heart beat faster than the #Dolomites. I was lucky to visit these peaks on summer holidays as a child, a legacy my Mamma @fenellapearson carried on from her maternal grandfather. On this trip, my mom managed to gather nearly twenty family members from the U.S., Jamaica and Italy in #montecivetta (towering here above #alleghe), to grant my Nonna’s wish to have her ashes scattered on Civetta. As a child, Nonna would follow her father up to the cliffs before he said goodbye and made the ascent to the summit. (Climbing runs in our veins!). On this trip, we all stayed at the base, greeted by this stunning, soul-pounding view every morning, until everyone made their way to town. The peak of the trip was a ceremony at the base of the rock (reached by car and a short walk given our gaggle of toddlers), where we returned Nonna to her resting place near a crystal clear brook thumping through the evergreens. 🌄🌲❤️
Ten of these right meow please!! Hey @ithacaicecream, can you pretty please make nocciola gelato for us? Hazelnut creamy decadence is impossible to beat! What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?? #gelato🍦 #nocciola #italiangirls #motherandaughter #mamaanddaughter #travelingwithkids #icecreamgirl
Our first stop in Italy was #bagnidilucca, a lesser known part of Tuscany in the northern foothills. The village, a maze of alleyways and bursting gardens, tumbled down a lush mountainside, with generous views of more mountains and the endless songs of swallows overhead. It took us nearly 24 hours to land here, for nearly all of which Ayla stayed awake! Which meant... so did we. Throughout the journey she asked if we could play outside, and when we finally spilled out of the rental car, she beelined straight for the stones on the path connecting our house to the one where my Mamma @fenellapearson and the rest of our non child rearing family would stay. Ayla’s cousins were equally entertained by the endless games with gravel, which came handy when we buzzed around them preparing food, hanging laundry in the sun and generally trying to catch a break. We were fortunate to stay in a family friend’s house that dated back at least 500 years, I couldn’t stop wondering what stories had transpired inside (and outside) these walls over so much time! 🌺🍷🍅
There are two beautiful things about traveling to Italy at the start of summer: you beat the tourist throngs that arrive later in June through August, and you taste the first fruits of summer before they’ve arrived in most of the US. Italy is slightly more temperate and a smidge ahead of our harvest (in Ithaca at least). Our first stop was the village of #bagnidilucca in the northern #tuscanyhills, which had a customary fruit and vegetable shop in the town piazza and a farmers market twice a week, both of which we frequented for asparagus, pomodori 🍅 and the most divine strawberries to pass my 👄🍓 (though I believe I say that every year over my first freshly plucked strawbie). Pizza, espresso and strawberries pretty much summed up mid-morning snacks for babes and grown-ups every day and it was perfection. 💃🇮🇹
We made it back to Ithaca! While the three of us are loving settling back into our simple routines and seeing how the garden has unfurled in these first few summer weeks, we’re also missing the happy chaos of two weeks in Italy with nearly the entire maternal side of my family! What a gift for all of us to be together, celebrating life at every stage. ❤️ As I reboot my digital life this week, I’ll be culling pictures to share from our travels! 🇮🇹 (Psst... the best part? Prosciutto, tomato and local cheese sandwiches on fresh rolls at every summit, road-side stop, and everything in between.) 🍅🧀🍖🍞 #italianfamily #italianfoodie #dolomites #dolomitilovers #mountaingirl #trailfood #picnicparty #picnictable #picnicfood

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